The Hawley Hospital was a specialist hospital in Barnstaple, Devon, founded in 1920[1] as a pulmonary tuberculosis sanatorium as part of a network of such facilities,[2] instigated by the Public Health (Tuberculosis Regulations) 1912.

[3] The hospital was set up to take tuberculosis (TB) patients in the North Devon area, and was administratively linked to the Hawkmoor County Sanatorium near Bovey Tracey, with the building complete in 1920.

Staff shortages in 1946 led to a restriction on the admission of patients, and led the Devon Public Health Committee to consider its closure.

[4] It joined the NHS in 1948, and was placed in to the Exeter Special Hospital Management Committee, which looked after the specialist TB, smallpox, and isolation hospitals.

[1] The hospital was located on Sowden Lane, to the East of the centre of Barnstaple.