Westbrook Hay School

Westbrook Hay Prep School
The school crest
Westbrook Hay School seen from the golf course
Motto Ora et Labora (Latin for "prayer and work")
Established 1892
Type Independent school
Religion Anglican Church of England
Principal Mr Keith D. Young
Location Hemel Hempstead
Hertfordshire
HP1 2RF
EnglandEngland
Staff 50 (approx)
Students 291(approx)
Gender Mixed
Ages 3–boys 13-14max girls 3-11
Houses Wellington (green), Nelson (blue), Marlborough (yellow), Drake (red)
Last Inspected 2011 http://www.isi.net/schools/7232/
Website www.westbrookhay.co.uk

Westbrook Hay Prep School is a co-educational independent school which educates children from rising 3 –13 years. The school is a day school as it no longer offers any boarding provision.

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.[1] 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.[2] 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.[3]

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)[4] until the Second World War after which it became the headquarters of the Hemel Hempstead New Town Development Corporation.[5] During the 1950s the 650 yard drive became the Westbrook Hay Hill Climb.[6]

Alumni

References

  1. ↑ "Our history". Westbrook Hay School. Retrieved 11 August 2013. Archived 29 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
  2. ↑ "Gadebridge House/School". Hemel Today, The Gazette. 2 January 2010. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  3. ↑ "Welcome". Westbrook Hay School. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  4. ↑ "Granville Ryder". UK Parliament. Retrieved 11 August 2013.
  5. ↑ "The Orange Walk - Woods & Meadows of Westbrook Hay". The Boxmoor Trust. Retrieved 11 August 2013. Archived 12 November 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
  6. ↑ Motor Sport, September 1953, Page 462.

Coordinates: 51°44′20″N 0°30′57″W / 51.7388°N 0.5158°W / 51.7388; -0.5158


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