A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds. Originally published by Victoria County History, London, 1972.
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'Longney: Education', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds, (London, 1972) pp. 205. British History Online https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol10/p205a [accessed 18 April 2024]
EDUCATION.
In 1818 there were two dame schools but no educational endowment. (fn. 1) A Sunday school that was started in 1820 had an attendance of 30 in 1825, when there was also a dame school kept by the parish clerk, (fn. 2) and of 40 in 1833, when the Sunday-school master received £5 a year. (fn. 3) There was apparently no school at all in 1846. (fn. 4) A National school was established in a new building in 1863, (fn. 5) and had an attendance of 38 in 1869. (fn. 6) The building, which is a single-story brick building incorporating a two-story teacher's house, (fn. 7) was enlarged in 1896. Attendance fell from 71 in 1902 (fn. 8) to 44 in 1936 ; (fn. 9) in 1968, when the older children went to school in Quedgeley and Stroud, there were 32 children in two departments. (fn. 10)