Longney: Education

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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Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith, 'Longney: Education', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds, ed. C R Elrington, N M Herbert, R B Pugh( London, 1972), British History Online https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol10/p205a [accessed 22 December 2024].

Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith, 'Longney: Education', in A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds. Edited by C R Elrington, N M Herbert, R B Pugh( London, 1972), British History Online, accessed December 22, 2024, https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol10/p205a.

Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith. "Longney: Education". A History of the County of Gloucester: Volume 10, Westbury and Whitstone Hundreds. Ed. C R Elrington, N M Herbert, R B Pugh(London, 1972), , British History Online. Web. 22 December 2024. https://prod.british-history.ac.uk/vch/glos/vol10/p205a.

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)

Footnotes

  • 1. Educ. of Poor Digest, 303.
  • 2. G.D.R. vol. 383, no. clvi.
  • 3. Educ. Enquiry Abstract, 320.
  • 4. Church School Inquiry, 1846-7, 12-13.
  • 5. Ed. 7/34/200.
  • 6. Rep. of Educ. Cttee. of Council, 1869-70 [C. 165], p. 573, H.C. (1870), xxii.
  • 7. Cf. Glos. R.O., D 2186/84, plans and elevations dated 1861.
  • 8. Kelly's Dir. Glos. (1902), 232.
  • 9. Bd. of Educ. List 21, 1936 (H.M.S.O.), 122.
  • 10. Local information.