| Whittingham Hospital | |
|---|---|
 The main building entrance (St Luke's Division) in 2008 | |
  Shown in the City of Preston district | |
| Geography | |
| Location | Whittingham, Lancashire, England |
| Coordinates | 53°49′01″N 2°39′29″W / 53.817°N 2.658°W |
| Organisation | |
| Care system | NHS |
| Funding | Public hospital |
| Type | Specialist |
| Services | |
| Emergency department | No |
| Beds | 3533 in 1939 |
| Speciality | Psychiatric hospital |
| Helipad | No |
| History | |
| Opened | 1 April 1873 |
| Closed | 1995 |
Whittingham Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in the parish of Whittingham, near Preston, Lancashire, England. The hospital opened in 1873 as the Fourth Lancashire County Asylum and grew to be the largest mental hospital in Britain, and pioneered the use of electroencephalograms (EEGs). It closed in 1995.