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The hospital has its origins in a facility at Farnham Road which opened in 1866. [2] Before that there had been a dispensary, catering for the poor of Guildford, in a 16th century house in Quarry street from 1859 to 1866. [3] The hospital moved to Egerton Road in Guildford and opened on 16 October 1978 as the Guildford District Hospital. [4]
Guildford (/ ˈ ɡ ɪ l f ər d / ⓘ) [2] is a town in west Surrey, England, around 27 mi (43 km) south-west of central London.As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 [1] and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around 145,673 inhabitants in 2022. [3]
The facility has its origins in the Guildford Poor Law Infirmary established in 1856. [1] The infirmary was enlarged in 1870 and replaced by a new facility laid out in pavilion style in 1893. [ 1 ] It became the Warren Road Hospital in 1930 and it joined the National Health Service as St Luke's Hospital in 1948. [ 2 ]
Royal Surrey County Hospital – Guildford, Surrey; Royal Victoria Hospital – Folkestone, Kent; Southlands Hospital – Shoreham-by-Sea, West Sussex; Spire Alexandra Hospital (independent) – Chatham, Kent; Spire Clare Park Hospital (independent) – Farnham, Surrey; Spire Gatwick Park Hospital (independent) – Horley, Surrey
The GU postcode area, also known as the Guildford postcode area, [2] is a group of 38 postcode districts in South East England, within 24 post towns.These cover west Surrey (including Guildford, Woking, Godalming, Cranleigh, Farnham, Camberley, Lightwater, Bagshot, Windlesham, Virginia Water, Hindhead and Haslemere), north-east Hampshire (including Aldershot, Farnborough, Fleet, Yateley ...
Description: Map of Surrey, UK with Guildford highlighted.. Equirectangular map projection on WGS 84 datum, with N/S stretched 160%: Date: 2 August 2011: Source: Ordnance Survey OpenData
The hospital was founded by George Abbot, the Archbishop of Canterbury (1611–1633) in 1619 to provide homes for the elderly of Guildford. [2] It is on the High Street in Guildford, opposite the Holy Trinity Church, where its founder, the Archbishop, is buried. The architecture and layout echoed that of contemporary Oxford and Cambridge colleges.
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 ...