Hampden Veterinary Hospital

There has been a veterinary practice at our present Hospital site in Aylesbury for over 100 years, which at that time was on the edge of the town and where the vet worked out of his Georgian house with stables in what was his back garden. This building continued to be used as part of our Small Animal Hospital till 2009. We fully renovated it in 2011 to use as our Farm Practice Office. The original Georgian vet building, is now our Farm Practice Office. The Practice in its present guise was established in around 1935-37, and as was tradition at the time it was known as “Anderson and Bugg”, then in 1970 the Practice changed its name to “Tuckett, Gray & Partners”. In 1991 when Mr Tuckett and Mr Gray retired it became Hampden Veterinary Hospital and it is this name that the Practice goes by today, with our Equine and Farm Practices also known as Hampden Equine Veterinary Practice and Hampden Farm Veterinary Practice to recognise their separate accreditation with the RCVS. Hampden Veterinary Hospital under the name of its Partners at the time, was one of very first veterinary Practices to be formally recognised as a Veterinary Hospital in 1967, carrying the Registration Number “1”. In 2009 we rebuilt our Small Animal Hospital on the existing site with a fully modern 3 operating theatre Hospital, dedicated to inpatient care and emergencies, and which also acts as our headquarters for the whole Practice. As this time the entrance was also changed from Cambridge Street to the adjoining Anchor Lane. A quick fact – as the Hospital is the only building on Anchor Lane it has its own post code – HP20 1AJ.