Netherne-on-the-Hill

Netherne-on-the-Hill is a small village in Surrey, England, built on the site of the Victorian Netherne psychiatric hospital.

The hospital was established in 1909 as the Second Surrey County Asylum, designed by G.T. Hine to house 960 of the county's Lunatics and extended in 1933. From 1946 under Edward Adamson, the hospital pioneered art therapy as a means of alleviating and understanding mental health difficulties. As with most mental hospitals,Victorian Netherne was percieved redundant by the 1990s and was closed in 1994.

After a period of dereliction the old hospital was taken on by Gleeson Homes who set about turning the buildings and grounds into a new village with its own shop, sports facilities and even a swimming pool. A mixture of conversion and redevelopment was used, with the main hall, tower, administration block and some wards being retained for conversion to apartments and the rest being demolished to be replaced by modern family housing.