It is managed by the Royal Surrey County Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.

[1] After the First World War it was decided to establish a facility for the treatment of tuberculosis on the site and a foundation stone was laid by Lord Ashcombe in May 1927.

[2] The new facility, which was designed by Sydney Tattle and built by Chapman, Lower and Peptic,[2] was officially opened by Neville Chamberlain MP, Minister for Health, as the Surrey County Sanatorium on 20 July 1928.

[1] Ray Galton and Alan Simpson (the writers of Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe and Son) created comedy scripts together after meeting while patients in Milford Sanitorium in 1948.

[3] It was also the location for an episode of Doctor Who starring Jon Pertwee and his adversaries, the Silurians, in 1969.