Moreton Valence: 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, 'Moreton Valence: 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/p215a [accessed 22 December 2024].

Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith, 'Moreton Valence: 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/p215a.

Kathleen Morgan, Brian S Smith. "Moreton Valence: 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/p215a.

EDUCATION.

There was a small Sunday school in 1818 (fn. 1) which had lapsed by 1825. (fn. 2) A Sunday school started in 1831 had 25 boys in 1833. (fn. 3) There was no school in 1847, and there were said to be not enough children for a Sunday school. (fn. 4) The children afterwards went to schools in neighbouring parishes. (fn. 5)

Footnotes

  • 1. Educ. of Poor Digest, 304.
  • 2. G.D.R. vol. 383, no. clix.
  • 3. Educ. Enquiry Abstract, 321.
  • 4. Church School Inquiry, 1846-7, 12-13.
  • 5. Kelly's Dir. Glos. (1889), 845; (1923), 259.