St Luke's Hospital, Guildford
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St Luke's Hospital, Guildford was a
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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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History

The facility has its origins in the Guildford Poor Law Infirmary established in 1856. The infirmary was enlarged in 1870 and replaced by a new facility laid out in pavilion style in 1893. It became the Warren Road Hospital in 1930 and it joined the
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as St Luke's Hospital in 1948. After services transferred to the
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, St Luke’s Hospital closed in 1996.


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