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Brookwood Hospital at Knaphill (near Woking) in Surrey, was established in 1867 by Surrey Quarter Sessions as the second County Asylum, the first being Springfield Asylum in Tooting (1840). A third asylum, Cane Hill Hospital at Coulsdon in the eastern part of the county, followed in 1882.
Old Woking is a ward and the original settlement of the town and borough of Woking, Surrey, about 1.3 miles (2.1 km) southeast of the modern town centre.It is bounded by the Hoe Stream to the north and the River Wey to the south and between Kingfield to the west and farmland to the east.
The first general hospital in Woking was a voluntary hospital opened in Bath Road in 1893. It was followed by the 13-bed Victoria Cottage Hospital on the corner of Boundary Lane and Chobham Road. The hospital was extended several times, and by the start of the Second World War, its capacity had increased to 100 in-patient beds. [189]
The development will offer a local centre, preventing the need for 30,000 hospital visits outside of Woking annually, the trust added. The new CDC services are due to start by the end of 2024 ...
Netherne Asylum was founded on 18 October 1905 [1] to alleviate overcrowding at the existing Brookwood Asylum near Woking.The hospital was designed by George Thomas Hine, Consultant Architect to the Commissioners in Lunacy to hold 960 patients. [2]
Westfield was one of three ‘open fields’ of the ancient town of Woking (see Old Woking) and was first recorded in 1548. [2] The ‘west’ field was in fact divided into two areas with the ‘lower west field’ occupying the area of present-day Westfield Avenue and the Football Ground and the ‘upper west field’ covering the area to the south and east of the Westfield Road.
Greenfield School in Old Woking, Surrey, was loaned £13.3million by Woking Borough Council, with £2.4m due on 25 November. The council papers to be presented on Thursday state "the school may ...
1953 the Surrey Plan foresaw a Woking Urban District population of about 67,000 in the mid-1970s, but the 1961 Census figures exceeded that amount. In 1965, a revised town plan foresaw a population of 97,000 by 1981 and proposed building 3 new housing schemes, one of which was known as 'Slococks', to be built on nurserylands owned by Slococks.