Hi, Sharon
I'm a bit behind the times here, but I've just spotted your queries re a possible Atcham Asylum. I've just learnt that an ancestor of mine died "in an asylum" at Shrewsbury in 1889. Ancestry UK's death records actually show him as dying at "Atcham".
So did you ever find out whether there was what nowadays we'd call a mental hospital at Shrewsbury ? (He was living in Shrewsbury for the 1881 Census, & still presumably OK at the time)
Peter