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1512 Read Article

Earliest recorded reference to the site as 'Fosters' appears in court rolls

Great Fosters Hotel Great Fosters Hotel: From Tudor Manor to Lunatic Asylum
1550-1610 Read Article

Construction of the main house during the Tudor and early Jacobean periods

Great Fosters Hotel Great Fosters Hotel: From Tudor Manor to Lunatic Asylum
1767 Read Article

Property converted into a private lunatic asylum

Great Fosters Hotel Great Fosters Hotel: From Tudor Manor to Lunatic Asylum
1930 Read Article

Great Fosters opens as a country house hotel

Great Fosters Hotel Great Fosters Hotel: From Tudor Manor to Lunatic Asylum
1931 Read Article

Historic tithe barn re-erected on the grounds

Great Fosters Hotel Great Fosters Hotel: From Tudor Manor to Lunatic Asylum

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Great Fosters Hotel: From Tudor Manor to Lunatic Asylum

Great Fosters Hotel

📍 Egham, Surrey
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Great Fosters in Egham traces its origins to the early sixteenth century, serving variously as a Tudor hunting estate, a private lunatic asylum, and finally a luxury hotel. Its decades housing the mentally disturbed, combined with over four centuries of accumulated history, provide fertile ground for the spectral encounters reported by modern guests.

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