Outspan Hotel

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Outspan Hotel
Kenya Colony. Nyeri District. View toward Mount Kenya from the Outspan Hotel LOC matpc.17599.tif
View toward Mount Kenya from the Outspan Hotel in 1936
Outspan Hotel
General information
Town or city Nyeri
Country Kenya
Coordinates Coordinates: 0°25′15″S36°56′30″E / 0.4209°S 36.9418°E / -0.4209; 36.9418
Opened1928 (1928)
Other information
Number of rooms45
Website
outspan.co.ke

The Outspan Hotel is in Nyeri, Kenya. It was built up from an old farm by Eric Sherbrooke Walker in the 1920s.

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Walker had purchased 28 hectares (69 acres) of Crown Land in Nyeri and in 1928, opened the Outspan Hotel, overlooking the gorge of a river in the Aberdare Range. [1] [ page needed ]

The hotel now has 45 rooms on 8.1 ha (20 acres) of gardens. [2]

Background

In 1939, Baden-Powell and his wife Olave moved to a cottage he had commissioned on the grounds of the hotel. [3] The Paxtu cottage is integrated into the hotel buildings and serves as a small Scouting museum. [4]

The hunter Jim Corbett also lived there. [5] [ page needed ]

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References

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  2. "About Us".
  3. Jeal, Tim (1989). Baden-Powell. London: Hutchinson. ISBN   0-09-170670-X.
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