In the 1800s there were several denominational Sunday schools and dame schools.
Schooling in Castle Cary and neighbouring parishes dates back at least until the 17th century although it was only in the early 19th century that e
Codford St Mary’s former school, began in 1875 (date on porch) and was extended 1889-91 (date beneath bell).
Wadham Locke, owner of Ashton Gifford House, built Ashton Gifford school at his own expense in 1844.
Codford had no country seat until the early 19th century when Ashton Gifford House, set in a small ornamental park, took that role.
This long pair of 18th-century façades hides remains of two 17th-century houses. The left-hand or northern one (No.
The school in Halling dates from the early nineteenth century. The school building in Vicarage Lane was opened on 8 May 1876, with 72 scholars.
Elizabeth Hall established an educational charity in Ledbury in 1706.
This five-bay, timber framed, two-storey range, laid out on an approximate east-west orientation, is a fine example of a timber-framed Tudor buildi
The growth of the modern coal mining in the 19th century brought with it it dramatic changes in both settlement and society on and near the Hardwic
