Epsom Cottage Hospital 1988, the facility is still used for the physiotherapy and rehabilitation. Epsom Cottage Hospital Epsom and Ewell Cottage Hospital is a small hospital in West Park Road, Horton Lane, Epsom, Surrey. It is managed by CSH Surrey. The hospital has its origins in a facility established at Pembroke Cottages at Pikes Hill in April 1873. It moved to Hawthorn Place in 1877 and to Alexandra Road in 1889. Emily Davison died at the hospital after being hit by King George V's horse Anmer at the 1913 Derby when she walked onto the track during the race. The hospital joined the
Emily Davison and admitted to setting fire to two others. Sentenced to six months in Holloway Prison, she did not go on hunger strike at first, but the authorities required that she be force-fed between 29 February and 7 March 1912 because they considered her health and appetite to be in decline. In June she and other suffragette inmates barricaded themselves in their cells and went on hunger strike; the authorities broke down the cell doors and force-fed the strikers. Following the force-feeding, Davison decided on what she described as a "desperate protest ... made to put a stop to the hideous