Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Florence Nightingale famously wrote, “It breaks my heart to leave Lea Hurst.” Now, the same country estate in the U.K. where the ...

Florence Nightingale’s family home, a historic English country house at the edge of a national park, has come to the market for £3.75 million (US$4.7 million). Known as Lea Hurst, the house—in the ...

2. She Had Opportunities The Nightingale family wasn't a stranger to luxury, owning two homes in England—Embly Park in Hampshire, and Lea Hurst in Derbyshire. Florence spent her childhood moving ...

Peter Kay wasn’t sure whether he wanted to move back to the UK back in 2011. The former banker at Standard Chartered was living in Asia, but while visiting his parents in England, he saw a newspaper ...