Embley Park
Embley Park is a historic British country house near the New Forest and the town of Romsey in Hampshire . The house is of historical importance, among other things, because Florence Nightingale , the pioneer of nursing, grew up here. Florence Nightingale's father, William Nightingale, acquired the country estate in 1825 after the actual Lea Hurst family home, located in Derbyshire, was found to be too remote by his wife Fanny Nightingale. The manor was remodeled on a grand scale by the Nightingale family.
Today the country house is a boarding school for boys and girls called Embley Park School and has been in existence since 1946. It consists of a kindergarten and a primary school for 3 to 11 year olds as well as a secondary school for pupils up to the age of 18. The school is currently being merged with another boarding school and will then be known as the Hampshire Collegiate School.
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- ^ Mark Bostridge: Florence Nightingale , Penguin Books, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-140-26392-3 , p. 27.
Coordinates: 50 ° 59 '8 " N , 1 ° 32' 34" W.