The UK's last ever Leper hospital in Warwickshire is among a number of endangered historic sites rescued from ruin. Urgent repair works are underway at The Leper Hospital of St Michael - where ...

A team renovating two buildings dating from around the 15th Century at a former leper hospital is seeking views on how the site can be best preserved. The project aims to "rescue and reuse" the ...

Legs, arms and a jaw bone as well as a skull were found and are to be tested for evidence of leprosy. An archaeologist said he believed they came from a patient at a hospital that stood in the area ...

As he approaches the swampy hamlet, with its hospital, schools and workshops, the lepers come out of their huts to greet him: in wheelchairs, on crutches, on their knees.

Unable longer to endure the sight and sound of fellows in misery at the Carville, La., leper hospital, John Early, 54, this year followed lonely mountain roads to Tryon, N. C., wearing no hood, ...

FOUR BROOKLYN LEPERS; One, Whose Disease Is Contagious, Is Confined in a Hospital. TWO NEW CASES JUST DISCOVERED The Victims Have Gone Freely Among Their Neighbors, but the Doctors Say There Is No ...

At the time of the Domesday Book in 1086, the village of Burton Lazars was just known as Burtone, but between 1138 and 1162, ...

A Government-appointed planning inspector has confirmed the compulsory purchase by Warwick District Council of the mediaeval Leper Hospital site in Saltisford, Warwick. The council has agreed with ...

A team renovating two buildings dating from around the 15th Century at a former leper hospital is seeking views on how the site can be best preserved. The project aims to "rescue and reuse" the ...