Established 1892 Gender Mixed Phone +44 1442 256143 Number of students 291 (approx) Staff 50 (approx) | Type Independent school Ages 3–13 Principal Mr Keith D. Young Founded 1892 | |
Religion Anglican Church of England Location Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire
HP1 2RF
England Address London Rd, Hemel Hempstead HP1 2RF, UK Motto Ora et Labora (Latin for "prayer and work") | ||
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Westbrook Hay Prep School is a co-educational independent school which educates children from rising 3 –13 years. The school is primarily a day school but with flexible boarding.
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The school
The school was established by Augustus Orlebar, a former housemaster at Radley College, as a boarding school for boys in Bedford in 1892; it moved to Hinwick House near Wellingborough shortly thereafter and then to Gadebridge House in nearby Hemel Hempstead in 1914. It remained there until it was forced out of its old premises by the Commission for New Towns as part of its development of the new town in 1963. It took on its present name at its present site that year. It is now an independent Prep school which educates boys and girls from rising 3 –13 years. The school is in a rural location on 26 acres of parkland overlooking the Bourne valley, off the A 41 between Berkhamsted and Hemel Hempstead in Hertfordshire.
The house
The house was built in the 17th century and remained in the ownership of the Ryder family (Richard Ryder, then Granville Ryder and then Dudley Ryder) until the Second World War after which it became the headquarters of the Hemel Hempstead New Town Development Corporation. During the 1950s the 650 yard drive became the Westbrook Hay Hill Climb.