Bethlem Royal Hospital (also known by nickname Bedlam) is a psychiatric hospital in London. It has had multiple sites and was originally near Bishopsgate when first founded in 1247. The site moved to Moorfields in 1676, St George's Fields in Southwark in 1815, and its current location in Monks Orchard in 1930. The hospital’s history is tinged by the mistreatment of its residents and has inspired several works of horror fiction and film.

In London Labour and the London Poor edition: 

Phase 1

A Balloon View of London (The Great World of London): "That little building, no bigger than one of the small china houses that are used for burning pastilles in, is Buckingham Palace - with St. James's Park, dwindled to the size of a card-table, stretched out before it. Yonder is Bethlehem Hospital, with its dome, now of about the same dimensions as a bell."

Phase 2

The Street Conjurer. (Volume 3)