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Royal Earlswood Park, REDHILL, RH1 6TJ

See Image for background to this area. Unlike much of the other development on the site, this is a new build, rather than a conversion of previous hospital buildings.

Demolition of outdoor sports court prior to erection of an inclusive sports facility at YMCA East Surrey Sports & Community Centre, Princes Road, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 6JJ.http://www.ymcaeastsurrey.org.uk/building-work-starts-on-ymcas-new-inclusive-sports-facility/

See Image for info. This is the former workshop, now called Edward House. It is grade II listed - for listing particulars see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1260527.

See Image for info. On the right is the former workshop, now called Edward House (see Image). The former main building, now called Victoria Court, is beyond.

See Image for info. This is the former infirmary, dating from 1877 and grade IIc listed i.e. in the curtilage of the main former hospital building listed at www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1241446. It is now called Helena House.

See Image for info. This is the northern entrance, bounded by the two lodges on the right (see Image and Image), behind which is the former infirmary (now Helena House - see Image), with the tower of the original main building behind on the left (now Victoria House).

See Image for info. This is the West Lodge, one of a pair at the northern entrance to the site, the East Lodge being just off picture to the right (see Image and Image). Both are grade II listed - for listing particulars see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1033356. In the background can be seen the steeple of St John's Church (see Image).

Originally opened in 1855, and receiving a royal charter from Queen Victoria in 1862, the Royal Earlswood Hospital was an asylum for people with learning difficulties. The first medical superintendent was John Langdon-Down after whom Down's Syndrome was named. It gained notoriety for housing two of the Queen Mother's nieces, Katherine and Nerissa Bowes-Lyon, for almost 50 years, from 1941 to 1986, a fact that was kept quiet, and even denied, by Buckingham Palace, who claimed that they had died. For full history see http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1291479&blobtype=pdf. The hospital closed in 1997, and has now been redeveloped for housing, as Royal Earlswood Park. This is the original main building, now named Victoria Court. It is grade II listed - for listing particulars see www.historicengland.org.uk/listing/the-list/list-entry/1241446.

Passed by a footpath used by the Greensand Way long distance path.