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Lady Hawkins' School
Lady Hawkins' School in Wales Mid, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Lady Hawkins' School is a place of interest in Wales Mid, 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
Lady Hawkins' School is a 11-16 secondary school in Kington, Herefordshire. The headteacher is Allen Brace. The school is now housed in modern buildings erected in 1962 and 1973, with other buildings erected more recently, almost all of which have been refurbished between 1990 and 1995 to meet the challenges and demands of recent curriculum developments. The original 1600s building is now in use as a private residence.
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Background
History
The school was founded on 29 September 1632 with funding from the estate of Lady Margaret Hawkins, widow of Sir John Hawkins, a slaver. She came from a Herefordfordshire family, being the daughter of Charles Vaughan. She was married to Hawkins for a few years in the 1590s before he died in the Caribbean. Lady Hawkins died in 1619, leaving £800 'for the purchasing of lands or tenements of a yearly value of forty pounds for and towards the perpetual maintenance of a learned and choice preaching divine, the Master, to keep a free school in Kington, in the County of Herefordshire, and of a learned and discreet Usher under him, for the instructing and teaching of youths and children in…
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- Coordinates
- 52.2025, -3.0385
- Address
- Park View
- Established
- 1632
- Official site
- www.lhs.hereford.sch.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q6470221 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Lady Hawkins' School (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Lady Hawkins' School?
- Lady Hawkins' School is in Mid Wales, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 52.2025°, -3.0385°.
- When was Lady Hawkins' School built?
- Lady Hawkins' School dates to 1632.