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# Bath Street: A Sanctuary for the Forgotten Standing on Bath Street, you're at the site where one of London's most vital charitable institutions took root in 1718—a French hospital that became a lifeline for Huguenot refugees and their descendants who had fled religious persecution on the continen...

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Bath Street

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Site of the French hospital founded by Royal Charter in 1718 to house the poor or infirm of French Huguenot descent. In 1866 the hospital was moved to Hackney and in 1960 to Rochester in Kent