Bethlem Royal Hospital
Bethlem Royal Hospital, also known as St Mary Bethlehem, Bethlehem Hospital and Bedlam, is a psychiatric hospital in Bromley, London. Its famous history has inspired several horror books, films, and television series, most notably Bedlam, a 1946 film with Boris Karloff.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hospital
- Description: psychiatric hospital in London
- Also known as: “Bedlam”, “Bethlem Hospital”, and “St Mary Bethlehem”
- Address: Beckenham, BR3 3BX
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum and Eden Park railway station.
Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum
Museum
Photo: Philip Talmage, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Bethlem Royal Hospital Archives and Museum is situated 800 feet southeast of Bethlem Royal Hospital.
Eden Park railway station
Railway station
Photo: Sunil060902, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Eden Park railway station serves Eden Park, in the London Borough of Bromley, south-east London, England. It lies 12 miles 34 chains down the line from London Charing Cross, in London fare zone 5. Eden Park railway station is situated 3,000 feet northeast of Bethlem Royal Hospital.
Orchard Park High School
School
Photo: Nerd180, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Orchard Park High School is an 11–16 mixed, secondary school with academy status in Shirley, Croydon, Greater London, England. It was formerly a foundation school and became an academy in September 2015. Orchard Park High School is situated 1,700 feet west of Bethlem Royal Hospital.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Monks Orchard and Eden Park.
Monks Orchard
Suburb
Photo: WisDom-UK, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Monks Orchard is a suburb on the edge of the London Borough of Croydon, in the ceremonial county of Greater London, England, prior to 1965 it was located in the historical county of Surrey.
Eden Park
Suburb
Photo: Dr Neil Clifton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Eden Park is a suburban area in Greater London, England, within the London Borough of Bromley, Greater London and prior to 1965, in the historic county of Kent.
Shirley
Suburb
Photo: Mtiedemann, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Shirley is an area of south London, England, within the London Borough of Croydon. It lies north of Spring Park and Addington, east of Addiscombe, south of Monks Orchard and west of West Wickham, and 10 miles south-southeast of Charing Cross.
Bethlem Royal Hospital
- Categories: psychiatric hospital and health care
- Location: Bromley, Greater London, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
51.38263° or 51° 22′ 58″ northLongitude
-0.03168° or 0° 1′ 54″ westElevation
226 feet (69 metres)Open location code
9C3X9XM9+38OpenStreetMap ID
way 35776498OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=hospitalOpenStreetMap feature
healthcare=hospitalGeoNames ID
6289066Wikidata ID
Q831377
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Azerbaijani to Ukrainian—“Bethlem Royal Hospital” goes by many names.
- Azerbaijani: “Bedlam”
- Basque: “Bethlem Errege-Ospitalea”
- Bosnian: “Kraljevska bolnica Betlehem”
- Chinese: “伯利姆皇家醫院”
- Chinese: “伯利恆皇家醫院”
- Chinese: “伯利恒皇家医院”
- Chinese: “貝特萊姆皇家醫院”
- Danish: “Bethlem Royal Hospital”
- Dutch: “Bethlem Royal Hospital”
- Finnish: “Bedlam”
- Finnish: “Bethlem Hospital”
- Finnish: “Bethlem Royal Hospital”
- French: “Bethlem Royal Hospital”
- German: “Bedlam”
- German: “Bethlehem Hospital”
- German: “Bethlem Royal Hospital”
- Greek: “Βασιλικό Νοσοκομείο Μπέθλεμ”
- Hebrew: “בית החולים בת’לם”
- Hebrew: “בית החולים בתלם”
- Igbo: “Bedlam”
- Igbo: “St Mary Betlehem”
- Igbo: “Ụlọ ọgwụ Betlem Royal”
- Italian: “Bethlem Royal Hospital”
- Japanese: “ベドラム”
- Japanese: “王立ベスレム病院”
- Kazakh: “Бедлам”
- Lithuanian: “Bedlamas”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Bethlem Royal Hospital”
- Norwegian: “Bethlem Royal Hospital”
- Persian: “بیمارستان سلطنتی بتلم”
- Portuguese: “Bethlem royal hospital”
- Portuguese: “Bethlem Royal Hospital”
- Russian: “Бедлам”
- Russian: “Бетлемская королевская больница”
- Spanish: “Hospital Real de Bethlem”
- Swedish: “Bedlam”
- Swedish: “Bethlehem Royal Hospital”
- Swedish: “Bethlem Royal Hospital”
- Turkish: “Bedlam ingiltere”
- Ukrainian: “Бедлам”
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