[1] The hospital, which was designed by Charles Fowler using a radial plan of the panopticon type, opened as the Devon County Lunatic Asylum in July 1845.

[4] It was badly bombed during the Second World War[2] and joined the National Health Service as Exminster Hospital in 1948 before becoming known as Exe Vale Hospital (Exminster Branch) in the 1970s.

[4] After the introduction of Care in the Community in the early 1980s, the hospital went into a period of decline and closed in July 1985.

[2] The main building was converted into apartments between 2001 and 2008 and is now known as Devington Park.

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