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Hospital

Fair Mile Hospital

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Important information

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Details

Previous Names
Moulsford Asylum, 1867-1897
Berkshire Lunatic Asylum, 1897-c 1915
Berkshire Mental Hospital, c 1915-1948Fairmile Hospital and George Schuster Hospital c. 1979
Address
Cholsey, Wallingford, OX10 9HH
Current Trust
West Berkshire Priority Care NHS Trust (since 1993)
Foundation Year
1867
Status
Closed (since 2003)

Administrative Authorities

Regional Board (1948-1974)
Oxford
Management Committee (1948-1974)
St. Birinus Group
Regional Authority (1974-1982)
Oxford
Regional Authority (Post-1982)
Oxford
District Authority (1974-1982)
West Berkshire
District Authority (Post-1982)
West Berkshire
Pre-1974 County
Berkshire
Post-1974 County
Oxfordshire
Post-1996 County
Oxfordshire

Status

Pre-1948
Local Authority
Post-1948
NHS

Type

Pre-1948
Mental
Post-1948
Mental

Other information

None

Record locations

  • Berkshire Record Office

    Record types

    Administrative
    1870 - 1968
    General
    1870 - 1968
    Finance
    1870 - 1949
    Estates
    1872 - 1924
    Staff
    1870 - 1954
    Admission
    1870 - 1966
    Clinical
    1870 - 1980
    Ephemera
    1913 - 1917
    Other
    1870 - 1953

    Finding aids

    Finding aids
    Catalogue, Computerised
    Location
    At Repository (AR), The National Archives (TNA)
    Details
    DH/10: plus additional material on Fair Mile among records of St Birinus Hospital Group (formerly Berkshire County Mental Hospital) Management Committe, PHA2
    Other: chaplains journals 1870-1953 and orders of chapel services' posts for theatrical performances 1872-9