The Dene Hospital is a private hospital in Gatehouse Lane, Goddards Green,

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, England. It is managed by the

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History

The original facility on the site, which was designed by

George Thomas Hine George Thomas Hine FRIBA (1842–25 April 1916) was an English architect. His prolific output included new county asylums for Hertfordshire, Lincolnshire, Surrey, East Sussex and Worcestershire, as well as extensive additions to many others. Bi ...

, opened as the Cuckfield Isolation Hospital in May 1902. It joined the

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as the Mid-Sussex Isolation Hospital in 1948 and became Goddards Green Hospital in 1960. After the Goddards Green Hospital closed in the 1990s, the site was acquired by the

, which established a mental health unit there, initially known as The Dene, and, from 2018, branded as the "Priory Hospital Burgess Hill".

References

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