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Entry TypeCorporate
Corporate NameBarlow Bolehill School
Epithetschool
Dates1677-c1876
HistoryThe following extracts are taken from White's History and Gazetter of Derbyshire, 1857, pp. 683-684
'Bole Hill, 1/2 mile south of [Great Barlow] village, contains a few cottages and a boarding and day school erected in 1677, and situated on a commanding emminence having a beautiful prospect of the country around. In 1831 a good substantial stone house for the master was erected by the Duke of Rutland for the accommodation of boarders, which has since been enlarged at the sole expense of the present master, Mr Edward Straw, who has occupied it for the last 36 years; the average attendance of the boarding and day scholars is 55. In connection with the school is a library, established in 1830, which contains about 600 volumes.'

'In 1752, Susannah Stephenson left 40s yearly for the instruction of five poor boys. By indenture, 1781, a close in Newbold was conveyed to trustees for the school and the poor, supposed to be in satisfaction of the above donation. The land, about 3 acres, is let for £6 per annum, £2 14s of which is paid to a schoolmaster, and the residue is given to the poor. A school was erected many years ago, and in 1817, a house for the residence of the master was built by subscription.

1848 Post Office Directory: 'There is a small Free school for 10 poor children, endowed with land and money by the Duke of Rutland, who is lord of the manor'. Edward Straw is listed at the boarding and day school. It is described as a National school in Harrod's Directory of 1870.

The school did not close in 1872 when the new national school opened, as Edward Straw is recorded as the master of the Boarding and Free school in the 1876 Post Office directory, with Philip Howell the master at the National School. The directory also lists Mary Ann Lowe as the mistress of a Dame school.

At the time of the 1881 Kelly's Directory, Thomas Newton Coe is the master at the 'Public Boarding and Day School', which 'provides for the education of ten poor children [through] the Stephenson charity. Miss Coe is given as the mistress there.
Authorised Form of NameBarlow Bolehill School; 1677-c1876; school

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