 Brockhall Hospital was claimed to be one of Europe's largest mental institutions.It was built in 1904 as an Inebriate Women's Reformatory, later becoming a hospital for people with learning disabilities.The hospital was closed by the NHS in 1992 as part of the government's Care in the Community policy, and the property developer Gerald Hitman, who had earlier bought the lease on the hospital, started to develop the site, replacing the hospital with a gated community, which now contains more than 400 homes, as well as the Blackburn Rovers' training ground and a hotel, Restaurant, and a few other local businesses including a Gym, Spa, Hairdressers, conference rooms, and more.