County Hospital 5622654 167700580 2007-10-28T20:53:14Z Waacstats 1951353 Stub-sorting. [[Wikipedia:WikiProject Stub sorting|You can help!]] ''*For the 1932 Laurel & Hardy film see [[County Hospital (1932 film)]]'' '''County Hospital''' (often referred to locally as '''Panteg Hospital''') is the only hospital in [[Torfaen]], [[Wales]]. It is located in the [[Pontypool]] suburb of [[Griffithstown]]. The oldest parts of the hospital were built in [[1837]] as a [[Workhouse]] as part of the Pontypool Poor Law Union. It was extended throughout the [[Victorian era|Victorian]] period and again in the early parts of the twentieth century. The hospital was severely downgraded in the early [[1990]]s and lost its maternity wards and full accident and emergency facility. A minor casualty department remains. ==See also== *[http://www.workhouses.org.uk/index.html?Pontypool/Pontypool.shtml History of the workhouse] *[http://www.wales.nhs.uk/sites3/page.cfm?orgid=79&pid=974 Official hospital information page] [[Category:Hospitals in Wales]] [[Category:Torfaen]] {{UK-hospital-stub}}