Ashbridge Cottage Hospital

Ashbridge Cottage Hospital is a fictional medical center featured on the original 1960s television series Doctor Who. It first appeared in 1970 in the "Spearhead from Space" storyline, beginning with the first chapter.

History
The Ashbridge Cottage Hospital is a hospital located in the market town of Epping in Essex, England. After emerging from his regenerative cycle, the Third Doctor suffered a tremendous amount of stress and shock from the experience and collapsed on the ground. He was then taken to Ashbridge Cottage Hospital. When UNIT administrator Brigadier Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart learned about this, he went to the hospital, but did not immediately recognize the Doctor in his new form. The Doctor however, did in fact recognize him. Later, he began badgering a nurse, asking for his shoes. After coming off like a lunatic, the Doctor eventually recovered his shoes, which proved important not only because they covered his feet, but it was also where he had been concealing the TARDIS key. The Doctor tried to leave the hospital, but a mysterious man named Channing appeared and kidnapped him, strapping him down to a wheelchair and exiting the building. Channing's associates moved the Doctor and his wheelchair into an ambulance, but the Doctor escaped in his wheelchair.