Farnham Road Hospital | |
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Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust | |
Geography | |
Location | Guildford, England |
Coordinates | 51°14′07″N0°35′05″W / 51.235278°N 0.584607°W |
Organisation | |
Care system | National Health Service |
Services | |
Helipad | No |
History | |
Opened | 1863 |
Links | |
Website | www |
Lists | Hospitals in England |
Farnham Road Hospital is a mental health hospital in Guildford, Surrey. It is managed by Surrey and Borders Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. The main building is a Grade II listed building. [1]
The foundation stone for the hospital was laid by Charles Richard Sumner, Bishop of Winchester, at a site donated by the Earl of Onslow in Farnham Road in Guildford in 1863. [2] The 60-bed hospital was designed by Edward Ward Lower drawing on the ideas of Florence Nightingale and was opened as the Royal Surrey County Hospital in April 1866. [3] The Royal Surrey County Hospital moved to its current site in Egerton Road in Guildford in 1979. [3]
The Farnham Road site was redeveloped between December 2013 and December 2015 to create a modern purpose-built mental health facility. [4]
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