This institution catered for pauper children from several parishes in south-east London. The oldest buildings on the site, built in the early 1850s, had originally been a large Poor Law residential 'district' school belonging to the South Metropolitan Schools District. For example, during World War II it was used as an emergency hospital for military and civilian casualties, including psychiatric cases. The premises had previously fulfilled a number of different institutional purposes. Belmont Hospital opened after the Second World War.
The site is now occupied by the 'Belmont Heights' housing development, which is situated to the west of Brighton Road, to the north of Belmont village. It closed and was demolished in the 1980s. Belmont Hospital and the South Metropolitan District School īelmont Hospital was a psychiatric hospital. The site is now occupied by HM Prison High Down.
Although located in the parish of Banstead, the asylum was much closer to the village and railway station of Belmont than those of Banstead. The village of Belmont strongly owed its development to the presence of Banstead Asylum. John's Church (C of E) stands in Queens Road, near the end of the small High Street ("Station Road").īanstead Hospital and the emergence of Belmont The new building, built on the site in 1955, was known as "The California" later changed to 'The Belmont', but in 2014, under new management, reverted to its original name of 'The California'.
The original pub was heavily damaged by German bombing in the Second World War. The station was renamed 'Belmont' in 1875, and the name was attached to the village that emerged subsequently. Belmont railway station opened in May 1865 and was originally called 'California Station', named after the California Arms public house on the opposite side of Brighton Road which was built by John Gibbons in approximately 1858. 1.2 Belmont Hospital and the South Metropolitan District Schoolīelmont did not exist until the late 19th century.1.1 Banstead Hospital and the emergence of Belmont.
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