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4 unusual facts about Spital


Spital railway station

Spital railway station, on the former main line from Birkenhead Woodside to London Paddington, is situated near Bebington on the Wirral Peninsula, England in the small suburb of Spital.

Spital-in-the-Street

Six years later Robert Mapletoft of Pembroke College, Cambridge was appointed Sub-Dean of Lincoln Cathedral and also Master of the Spital Hospital; he rebuilt the chapel and set about improving the Hospital’s revenues.

Spital, Derbyshire

Spital Cemetery was opened in 1857 to serve the local communities of Brimington and Tapton, providing approximately 10.5 acres (4.25 hectares) of burial space.

Spittal, Pembrokeshire

Its name is a corruption of the word Hospital, which is also the root of such names as Spitalfields, London, Spital, Merseyside, Spital-in-the-Street, Lincolnshire, etc: the village possessed a hospitium (place of accommodation for pilgrims) belonging to the Cathedral of St David's.


Spitalfields Music

2005 - Winner of the Royal Philharmonic Society Music Award for Education fom Spitalfields Festival commission of Jonathan Dove's community cantata On Spital Fields.

Vie

Vie is also home to two other major hospitals: the Pulmonary Diseases Hospital (more commonly known as The Tuberculosis Hospital, or Spital TBC) and the Oradea Mental Hospital.


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