Beechworth Lunatic Asylum – Beechworth, Australia
It was originally known as the haunted Mayday Hills Lunatic Asylum. The Asylum was surrounded by almost 106 hectares of farmland, making the hospital self-sufficient with its own piggery, orchards, kitchen gardens, fields, stables and barn. One of the features of the asylum is the Ha-ha walls around the patients’ courtyards. These Ha-Ha’s consisted of a trench, one side of which was vertical and faced with stone or bricks, the other side sloped and turfed. It is currently owned by La Trobe Neechworth Pty Ltd and managed by la Trobe University. Nightly ghost tours are held at the hospital allowing public access to the most historic building on the site.
