[2] According to one account, "the benevolent Lady Hastings, who, in the year 1749, bequeathed a legacy of £500, for the relief of the diseased poor in the county of York; which fund being augmented by other contributions, the present edifice was soon after erected.

[4] In 1887, the hospital merged with the York Eye Institution which had been opened in 1875, but which was being rarely used.

[4] York suffered a major attack on 29 April 1942, one of the Baedeker raids by the Luftwaffe.

Many of the casualties, who would later go on to die, were treated at York County Hospital.

The Sainsbury's supermarket at Jewbury was then built while the hospital building, renamed County House, was used as the headquarters of Yorkshire Water before being converted for residential use.