Embley, Hampshire

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Embley
Hampshire
Embley Park.jpg
Embley Park
Location
Grid reference: SU320211
Location: 50°59’20"N, 1°32’43"W
Data
Post town: Romsey
Postcode: SO51
Dialling code: 01962
Local Government
Council: Test Valley
Parliamentary
constituency:
Romsey and Southampton North

Embley is a small village in the west of Hampshire, a mile from the border of Wiltshire to the west. Its nearest town is Romsey, which stands three and a half miles east of Embley.

A famous 19th century resident was Florence Nightingale, who for much of her childhood was raised in the parish at her family's home Embley Park; though as a child she also often lived at the family's second home at Lea Hurst in Derbyshire.[1] Embley Park is now a school.

References

  1. Florence Nightingale and Lynn McDonald, ed (2010). "An introduction to Vol 14". Florence Nightingale: The Crimean War. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. ISBN 0889204691.