| Entry Type | Corporate |
| Corporate Name | Kingsway Hospital |
| Alternative Form of Name | Derby Borough Lunatic Asylum (1888-?) |
| Place | Derby |
| Epithet | mental health hospital, former Victorian lunatic asylum |
| Dates | 1888- |
| History | Derby Borough Asylum opened in 1888, with 27 patients, housed in a building designed by Hull architect Benjamin S Jacobs. It later became known as Kingsway Hospital, and was taken over by the National Health Service in 1948. |
| Other Information | Counties had been given permissive powers to build asylums for pauper lunatics in 1808 and this was made compulsory in 1853. Responsibility for mental health and other hospital services transferred to regional hospital boards under the National Health Service Act. |
| Authorised Form of Name | Derby; Kingsway Hospital; 1888-; mental health hospital, former Victorian lunatic asylum |
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