Erith and District Hospital

Erith and District Hospital is a health facility in Park Crescent, Erith, London, England. Its former X-Ray Department, which is located underground, is a Grade II listed building.^[1]

Erith and District Hospital
Dartford and Gravesham NHS Trust
Erith and District Hospital
Shown in Bexley
Geography
Location	Park Crescent, Erith, London Borough of Bexley, England
Coordinates	51.4771°N 0.1667°E / 51.4771; 0.1667
Organisation
Care system	NHS
Type	Community
History
Opened	1871
Links
Lists	Hospitals in England

History

The facility has its origins in a couple of cottages on Crayford Road which were converted for clinical use as the Erith, Crayford, Belvedere, and Abbey Wood Hospital in 1871.^[2] It moved to new facilities in Erith High Street in 1875 and to purpose-built premises in Park Crescent, which were officially opened by the Prince of Wales, in 1924.^[2] It was extended in 1933 and an underground hospital, operated as part of the Emergency Medical Service, was built in 1938 and was in use throughout the Second World War.^[2] It joined the National Health Service as Erith and District Hospital in 1948^[3] and a new outpatient department was completed in 1954.^[2]