[1] The hospital, which was designed by George Gilbert Scott and William Bonython Moffatt using a corridor layout, opened as the Shropshire and Wenlock Borough Lunatic Asylum in March 1845.

This also included the staff (nursing attendants) entering from separate entrances and appears to conform to the 19th concept of the ideal asylum.

[4] Shortly after reaching its peak population of 1,027 patients in 1947,[5] the facility joined the National Health Service as Shelton Hospital in September 1948.

[2] John Barker was a psychiatrist at the hospital who ran a number of research projects including privately setting up the Premonitions Bureau.

[6] On 26 February 1968, tragedy struck the hospital when a fire ripped through a female ward, killing 21 patients.