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Great Ayton Friends' School
Great Ayton Friends' School in England North East, United Kingdom.
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- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Great Ayton Friends' School is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Great Ayton Friends' School (1841–1997) in Great Ayton, North Yorkshire, England, was a private, co-educational, agricultural boarding school, run by the Religious Society of Friends (the Quakers). The school was situated on High Green on an estate of around 70 acres (280,000 m2). The River Leven (a tributary of the River Tees), ran through the school grounds and was bridged in several places.
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Background
History
In the early 1800s, County Durham Quakers searched for a suitable site for an agricultural school. This was for the children of disowned Quakers who were not eligible for Quaker education, Unable to find a site in the preferred area of Bishop Auckland, Durham Friends sought the assistance of Thomas Richardson, a Quaker from Darlington who had come to live in Great Ayton on his retirement in 1830. In 1841 the school was established "for the maintenance of 36 boys and the same number of girls belonging to or connected with the Society of Friends; others are admitted at a charge representing about the average cost of each child per annum. There was now accommodation for 80 boarders. The course…
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- Coordinates
- 54.4879, -1.1326
- Address
- 101 High Street, Middlesbrough, TS9 6NB
- Phone
- +44 164 272 4296
- Established
- 1841
- Official site
- captaincookschoolroommuseum.co.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q5598678 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Great Ayton Friends' School (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Great Ayton Friends' School?
- Great Ayton Friends' School is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.4879°, -1.1326°.
- When was Great Ayton Friends' School built?
- Great Ayton Friends' School dates to 1841.