Brookwood Hospital

Brookwood Hospital at Knaphill in Surrey, was established in 1867 by Surrey Quarter Sessions as the second County Asylum, the first being Springfield Asylum in Tooting . A third asylum, Cane Hill Hospital at Coulsdon in the eastern part of the county, followed in 1882.

The facility, which was designed by Charles Henry Howell, the principal asylum architect in England and architect to the Lunacy Commissioners and county surveyor for Surrey from 1860–1893, was opened as the Brookwood Asylum on 17 June 1867. It was the leading mental hospital for the western half of Surrey, occupying a large site at Knaphill, near Brookwood. The hospital had a dairy farm, a cobbler's workshop, a large ballroom, its own fire brigade, gasworks and sewage farm and employed the services of many local businesses. The chapel, which could seat 800, opened in 1903. The facility became known as Brookwood Hospital in 1919.

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