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Florence Nightingale visited Harrogate in 1852, in company with her aunt, staying in this York Place house then occupied by Mrs Wright's lodgings. She went on to improve the wretched hospital conditions of British soldiers in the Crimea, reform medical and sanitary standards and raise the quality and status of nursing.”
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York Place, Harrogate.

This plaque commemorates where Florence Nightingale stayed during a visit to Harrogate in 1852.