Embley is a small village in the
Test Valley district of
Hampshire, England in the
United Kingdom. Its nearest town is
Romsey
Romsey ( ) is a historic market town in the county of Hampshire, England. Romsey was home to the 17th-century philosopher and economist William Petty and the 19th-century British prime minister, Lord Palmerston, whose statue has stood in the t ...
, which lies approximately 3.5 miles (4.8 km) east from the village. It is in the
civil parish of
Wellow.
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
Embley Park, in Wellow (near Romsey, Hampshire), was the family home of Florence Nightingale from 1825 until her death in 1910. It is also where Florence Nightingale claimed she had received her divine calling from God. It is now the location o ...
.
[Though as a child she also often lived at the family's second home at ]Lea Hurst
Dethick, Lea and Holloway is a civil parish (and, since 1899, an ecclesiastical parish), in the Amber Valley borough of the English county of Derbyshire. The population of the civil parish taken at the 2011 census was 1,027.
It is located in c ...
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Notes and references
Villages in Hampshire
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