Its nearest town is Fareham, adjoining an inlet of Portsmouth Harbour approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) south-east.

It stands as part of the cluster of houses known as Farm Cottages, on Mayles Lane, north of the former hospital site.

[3] A committee of nine JPs were appointed at the Easter Quarter Sessions in 1846 to superintend the erecting or providing of a lunatic asylum.

[4][5] In December 1852, after two years building, Hampshire's first County Lunatic Asylum was completed on Knowle Hill in the north of the present village.

[15] Part of the old hospital was a red brick Chapel, with small belfry dressed in stone, built in 1875[16] to free up space in the main building.

They later transferred ownership of the building to Winchester City Council for £1, with an additional gift of £28,000 to provide some funding for future maintenance costs.

A few remaining iron crosses, generally being the memorials, were removed in 2001 for secure storage pending a decision to relocate them.