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    An exterior view of Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News)

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    One of the bathrooms at Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News)

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    One of the hallways in Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News)

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    One of the rooms inside Rauceby. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News)

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    An exterior view of some boarded up windows at Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire.(Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News)

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    Inside of Rauceby. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News)

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    One of the hallways in Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News)

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    One of the rooms at Rauceby is missing a wall. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News)

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    An exterior view of Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News)

<p>One of the rooms at Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>An exterior view of Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>An exterior view of Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>A view of the staircase inside Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>One of the bathrooms at Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>A view of one of the staircases inside Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>One of the hallways in Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>One of the hallways in Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>An exterior view of Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>An exterior view of Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>A view of one of the staircases inside Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>One of the rooms inside Rauceby. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>An exterior view of some boarded up windows at Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire.(Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>Inside of Rauceby. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>An exterior view of Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>One of the hallways in Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>One of the rooms at Rauceby is missing a wall. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
<p>An exterior view of Rauceby, an abandoned mental asylum in Lincolnshire. (Photo: Simon Robson/Caters News) </p>
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These haunting photos show the collapsing remains of a derelict mental asylum. The pictures show the ruined former hospital building and chapel, now covered in dust and graffiti. Few signs remain that reveal the site as a former home for mentally ill adults and children.

There is only one medical bed and one bathroom with three broken stalls. Outside, a single tractor tire from the asylum's farm site lies across an almost-hidden path that used to lead to the entrance.

Photographer Simon Robson visited Lincolnshire's Rauceby Asylum to explore and snap images of the hospital's eerie remains. Rauceby was founded in 1897 and served primarily as a mental hospital for over a century, finally closing its doors in 1998. (Caters News)

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