The hospital pioneered the use of electroencephalograms (EEGs) and during its time it had its own church, farms, railway, telephone exchange, post office, reservoirs, gas works, brewery, orchestra, brass band, ballroom and butchers.

[8] The hospital campus is now mostly derelict awaiting redevelopment, but a psychiatric unit known as Guild Lodge still operates on part of the site.

It lies just outside the village of Goosnargh and directly opposite the main entrance to the grounds of the former Whittingham Hospital.

[9] Just outside the town of Longridge, within the parish of Whittingham, lies Halfpenny Lane locally /ˈheɪpni/ HAYP-nee, so named because of a toll charged to cattle drovers for an overnight stay.

[12][13] An alternative legend claims that the cow gave milk freely to all comers, but died of shock when an old witch asked it to fill a riddle (sieve) instead of a pail.

[14] Between 1962 and 1991, straddling the boundary of Whittingham and Goosnargh parishes in Langley Lane, were the headquarters of the Western Region of the United Kingdom Warning and Monitoring Organisation.

They were in a vast underground bunker that would have been the Northwest of England’s control centre in the event of a nuclear attack on Britain.