The hospital was erected between 1809 and 1812 in East Reach in the centre of Taunton.

and in 1968 the management committee was re-named the West Somerset Hospital Management Committee.

[1] The main block of the hospital was Grade II listed in 1975.

[3] Taunton and Somerset Hospital closed in 1986, and the services moved out to Musgrove Park Hospital.

[4] Three matrons who ran the hospital in succession all trained at The London Hospital under Eva Luckes.