Banstead Hospital xx Banstead Asylum , 1877 - 1918 xx Banstead Mental Hospital , 1918 - 1937 xx Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum

Banstead Hospital xx Banstead Asylum , 1877 - 1918 xx Banstead Mental Hospital , 1918 - 1937 xx Middlesex County Lunatic Asylum

Banstead Hospital opened in 1877 as the third lunatic asylum for the county of Middlesex. It was under the general control of the Middlesex justices of the peace until 1889 when, on the establishment of the London County Council it passed into their hands.

In 1948 the hospital came under the South West Metropolitan Hospital Board and the Banstead Hospital Management Committee, which lasted until 1974. With the reorganisation of the National Health Service the hospital came under the management of the North West Thames Regional Health Authority and the North East Health District until 1982 when it became part of the Victoria District Health Authority and finally the Riverside Health Authority in 1985 prior to its closure in 1986.