A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes). Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1992.
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'Stringston: Education', in A History of the County of Somerset: Volume 6, Andersfield, Cannington, and North Petherton Hundreds (Bridgwater and Neighbouring Parishes), (London, 1992) pp. 177. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/som/vol6/p177a [accessed 26 April 2024]
EDUCATION.
In 1734 George Paddon left £15 by will, the interest for teaching poor children. (fn. 1) There was a teacher in the parish in 1802, (fn. 2) and in 1826 a dame school seems to have been receiving the charity money. (fn. 3) A day school was opened in 1833 for 5 boys and 5 girls, all taught at their parents' expense; (fn. 4) the educational charity was devoted by the 1850s to general poor relief. (fn. 5) In 1874 Sir Alexander Hood built a National school and schoolhouse at Dyche for children of the poorer classes from Dodington, Holford, and Stringston, and in 1903, when it was leased to the county council, there were 68 children on the books under three teachers. (fn. 6) Numbers fell to 45 in 1915 and to 20 in 1933, when the school was closed. (fn. 7)