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Rooksdown is the name of the locality and is shown as Rooks Down in the Ogilby strip maps of 1675. [1] It is also the name of the old Roman road that passes through the Parish, and of the now demolished Rooksdown Hospital, originally Rooksdown House (the Private annexe of Park Prewett Hospital), which once occupied the north west corner of the parish [2] at the junction of Kingsclere Road and ...
The main hospital building was opened in 1974. [2] An elephant-shaped fountain by sculptor Sioban Coppinger, made to form part of a children's play area, was erected in Hunters Courtyard in the grounds of the hospital in 1992. [4] In 1999 BNHH became the first hospital in Europe to perform surgery using equipment operated by voice commands. [5]
In 2014, the Trust announced plans for a new Critical Treatment Hospital to be built alongside a new £18.5m cancer treatment centre, on land at North Waltham, Hampshire. It would have a centralised obstetric labour unit and midwifery-led birthing centre, paediatric ward, central pathology laboratory, ambulance station, energy centre and a ...
The trust runs Eastrop House and Parklands Hospital in Basingstoke, Hollybank and Elmleigh in Havant, Postern House in Marlborough, Melbury Lodge and Leigh House in Winchester, Crowlin House and Forest Lodge, Woodhaven, Western Community Hospital, Antelope House and Moorgreen Hospital in Southampton, Fareham Community Hospital and Ravenswood House in Fareham, Jacobs Lodge in Hounsdown, as well ...
A nurse at Park Prewett Hospital in 1941. Park Prewett was an enclosure dating back to the time of Edward I. [1] Following a report by the Lunacy Commission into overcrowding at Knowle Hospital in the south of the county, a new site was required to house the expanding population. [2] Park Prewett Farm was selected and then acquired in 1899. [2]
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Figures published for the UK census in 2011 for the Borough of Basingstoke and Deane give a population of 167,799 and a population density of 2.7 persons per hectare—only about half the national figure. [40] The number of women slightly exceeded that of men, and a slight increase in the percentage of residents over 65 was also noted. [41]
To the North of Winklebury is the site of Park Prewett Hospital (1912–1997), now the separate civil parish of Rooksdown. The hospital was served by its own railway line until 1956 and the course of the old railway now forms the northern eastern boundary of Winklebury. The north western boundary is the footpath on the northern side of the A339.