West Norfolk and Lynn Hospital

A meeting on 13 October 1833 in King's Lynn of local gentry, chaired by MP Sir W. H. B. Ffolkes, led to the hospital's construction and opening in 1835 at a cost of more than £2,000.^[1] An 1845 guide to the area described it as a "spacious and handsome building of white brick" which had accommodations for about 40 patients; the Marquess of Cholmondeley was the president of the hospital.^[2]

The building was expanded in 1848 and again in 1852.^[3] A major expansion in the early 1930s was formally opened by Queen Mary on 9 February 1935.^[4]

On being taken over by the National Health Service in 1948, the hospital was classified as an acute care facility.^[5] The hospital was closed in 1980 after the opening of Queen Elizabeth Hospital, King's Lynn and the building was demolished in 1988.

• George Cholmondeley, 2nd Marquess of Cholmondeley (1792-1870), MP and peer, served as board president
• Daniel Gurney (1791-1880), banker and antiquary; a backer and long-time board member of the hospital^[6]
• Emily MacManus (1888-1978), president of the Royal College of Nursing, worked at the hospital early in her career
• Charles Bagge Plowright (1849-1910), surgeon and mycologist who trained and worked at the hospital
• Roger Taylor (b. 1949), drummer for Queen, was born at the hospital