Canadian Red Cross Hospital, Cliveden
History and full photographic survey

Location:

Cliveden, Buckinghamshire

Date:

2001

Client:

National Trust

In 1914, during the First World War, the Astor family invited the Canadian Red Cross to build a military hospital on part of the Cliveden estate. The Red Cross built a small hospital, the HRH Duchess of Connaught Hospital, on the site. It was named after the Duchess of Connaught who had served as Viceregal consort of Canada.[3]
In the Second World War, the Canadian Red Cross demolished many of the existing buildings to make way for a new, larger hospital with more equipment; this was named the Canadian Red Cross Memorial Hospital.

The hospital closed and was abandoned in 1985 and lay derelict for two decades while the National Trust, who owned the site since 1942, explored options for its development. It was demolished in 2006 to make way for a housing development for people aged 55 and over called Cliveden Village.