Farnham Road Hospital is a mental health hospital in

Guildford Guildford () is a town in west Surrey, England, around south-west of central London. As of the 2011 census, the town has a population of about 77,000 and is the seat of the wider Borough of Guildford, which had around inhabitants in . The nam ...

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. It is managed by

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. The main building is a Grade II

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History

The foundation stone for the hospital was laid by

Charles Richard Sumner Charles Richard Sumner (22 November 179015 August 1874) was a Church of England bishop. Life Charles Sumner was a brother of John Bird Sumner, Archbishop of Canterbury. Their father was Robert Sumner, and their mother was Hannah Bird, a first c ...

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, at a site donated by the

Earl of Onslow Earl of Onslow, of Onslow in the County of Shropshire and of Clandon Park in the County of Surrey, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1801 for George Onslow, 4th Baron Onslow. History The Onslow family descends ...

in Farnham Road in

in 1863. The 60-bed hospital was designed by Edward Ward Lower drawing on the ideas of

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and was opened as the Royal Surrey County Hospital in April 1866. The Royal Surrey County Hospital moved to its current site in Egerton Road in Guildford in 1979. The Farnham Road site was redeveloped between December 2013 and December 2015 to create a modern purpose-built mental health facility.

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Official site
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