EDUCATION.
A school was recorded in 1612
and in 1662 a man was licensed to teach writing,
reading, accounts, ciphering, and grammar. (fn. 63)
The overseers maintained a school between 1694
and 1777. (fn. 64) In 1819 a Sunday school taught 64
children but numbers had fallen to 42 by 1825. (fn. 65)
In 1835 there were 73 at the Sunday school and
54 at two day schools, begun in 1818 and 1830. (fn. 66)
The day schools had closed by 1843 but 90
children attended a Sunday school in a building
probably erected in 1842. (fn. 67) The Sunday school
had 77 pupils in 1846 but a day school was 'much
wanted'. (fn. 68) A National school, in existence in
1861, was transferred to a school board in 1875 (fn. 69)
and rebuilt in 1876. In 1903 there were 80
children on the books (fn. 70) but numbers fell to 25
in 1945. In 1966 the school became a junior
school and in 1981 there were 41 children on the
register. (fn. 71)
There was a boarding school in the parish in
1859, a dame school in the 1860s, (fn. 72) and a private
school in 1883. Elizabeth Winter kept a dairy
school for farmers' children between 1894 and
1910, and for several years afterwards she lectured on cheese and butter making. (fn. 73)
Footnotes
| 63 |
Ibid. D/D/Ca 175; D/D/Bs 39. |
| 64 |
Ibid. DD/S/ST 19/4; D/P/chedz 4/1/4, 13/2/1;
D/D/Bs 44. |
| 65 |
Educ. of Poor Digest, p. 778; Ann. Rep. B. & W. Dioc. Assoc. S.P.C.K. (1825-6), 41. |
| 66 |
Educ. Enq. Abstract, p. 799. |
| 67 |
S.R.O., DD/X/HUNT 1. |
| 68 |
Nat. Soc. Inquiry, 1846-7, Som. 6-7. |
| 69 |
S.R.O., D/N/bmc 3/2/1; D/P/chedz 18/1/1; ibid. C/T
3. |
| 70 |
Ibid. C/E 4/380/83. |
| 71 |
Ibid. 4/64. |
| 72 |
Harrison, Harrod, & Co. Dir. Som. (1859); P.O. Dir.
Som. (1861, 1866). |
| 73 |
Whitby, Dir. Bridgwater (1883); Kelly's Dir. Som.
(1894, 1910, 1919). |