The hospital has its origins in the Epping Union Workhouse Infirmary built in 1846.

[2] On 22 March 1945 the hospital was hit by a German V-2 rocket, which destroyed the water tower, flooding nearby houses.

Some houses, the elderly unit and the laundry block at the hospital and a single storey timber built casual ward were destroyed.

[3] The hospital joined the National Health Service in 1948[2] and the workhouse building itself was demolished in 2001.

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