Hospital

Warley Hospital

Last updated 29 September 1999.

Details

Previous Names

Essex County Lunatic Asylum (1853 - c1920)

Brentwood Mental Hospital (c1920 - 1953)

Address

Warley Hill, Brentwood, CM14 5HQ

Current Trust

Barking, Havering and Brentwood Community Health Care (since 1994)

Foundation Year

1853

Status

Closed (since 1999)

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)

North East Metropolitan

Management Committee (1948-1974)

Warley Group

Regional Authority (1974-1982)

North East Thames

Regional Authority (Post-1982)

North East Thames

District Authority (1974-1982)

Barking and Havering

Pre-1974 County

Essex

Post-1974 County

Essex

Post-1996 County

Essex

Status

Pre-1948

Local Authority

Post-1948

NHS

Type

Pre-1948

Mental

Post-1948

Mental

Other information

See G.S Nightingale, 'Warley Hospital, Brentwood. The first hundred years 1853 - 1953' (typeset, 1953), of which a photocopy is avaiable at the Essex Record Office, Chelmsford. From 1974 the hospital lay geographically within the Chelmsford District of the Essex Area Health Authority, but in common with other hospitals in Brentwood was administered by the Barking and Havering Area Health Authority.

Record locations

• Essex Record Office

  Record types

  Administrative

  1853 - 1990

  Addl records received A/H10 addl (NRA 2005); additional casebook NRA Accessions to Repositories 2006

• Wellcome Library

  Record types

  Clinical

  1891 - 1894

  Finding aids

  Finding aids

  Catalogue

  Location

  At Repository (AR)

  Albert Wilson, notes on feebleminded or delinquent girls at the Essex County Asylum, MS 5025