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Leamington Spa Hospital. Leamington Spa Hospital is located on Heathcote Lane in Warwick, Warwickshire, in England. Originally an isolation hospital, it is now a hospital run by South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust specialising in rehabilitation.
Royal Leamington Spa, commonly known as Leamington Spa or simply Leamington [note 1] (/ ˈ l ɛ m ɪ ŋ t ən / ⓘ), is a spa town and civil parish in Warwickshire, England.Originally a small village called Leamington Priors, it grew into a spa town in the 18th century following the popularisation of its water which was reputed to have medicinal qualities. [2]
The hospital was named after Samuel Wilson Warneford, a philanthropist who donated £3,000 of the £4,000 needed to build the hospital. [2] The foundation stone was laid in 1832 [3] and it opened in 1834. [2] It was initially funded either by the patients themselves, by wealthy individual donors or by collections made from the general public.
The hospital opened as the Oxford Lunatic Asylum in July 1826. [2] It was designed by Richard Ingleman (1777–1838) and built of Headington stone. [3] The name commemorates the philanthropist Samuel Wilson Warneford. [4] It was renamed the Warneford Hospital in 1843 [2] and extended by J.C. Buckler in 1852 and by William Wilkinson in 1877.
South Warwickshire University NHS Foundation Trust, formerly South Warwickshire NHS Foundation Trust, [1] manages four hospitals, Warwick Hospital, Stratford Hospital, Leamington Spa Hospital and Ellen Badger Hospital. The trust agreed a package of support for the financially troubled George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust in August 2014 although its ...
Area code (s) 519, 226, 548 [5] Website. www.leamington.ca. Wikivoyage has a travel guide for Leamington, Ontario. Leamington (/ ˈliːmɪŋtən / LEEM-ing-tən) is a municipality in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. With a population of 29,680 in the Canada 2021 Census, it forms the second largest urban centre in Windsor-Essex County after ...
Warwickshire Nuffield Hospital is a not-for-profit private hospital situated in the north of Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England. History. The hospital was established in 1981 as a charitable trust and joined the Nuffield Hospitals group in 1994, which rebranded to Nuffield Health. References
John Hitchman MRCS (1805 – 3 March 1867) was a British medical doctor and philanthropist associated with the town of Royal Leamington Spa. Born in Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, Hitchman moved to Royal Leamington Spa by 1828 to work as a surgeon. From 1832 he was on the staff of the Warwickshire County Hospital, later renamed the Warneford ...