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Independent school
An independent school in the United Kingdom is a school that is not financed by taxpayers or through the taxation system by local or national government, and is instead funded by private sources, predominantly in the form of tuition charges, gifts and long-term charitable endowments, and so not...
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Milton Abbey
Milton Abbey School is a British independent school in the Dorset countryside. It has 250 pupils in six boarding Houses, called Athelstan, Bancks, Damer, Hambro, Middleton and Tregonwell. Founded in 1954, it welcomes boys from 13 – 16 years and is...
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- 1954
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Dulwich College
Dulwich College is an independent school for boys in Dulwich, south-east London, United Kingdom. The College was founded in 1619 by Edward Alleyn, a successful Elizabethan actor, with the original purpose of educating 12 poor scholars as the...
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- 1619
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Westminster School
The Royal College of St. Peter in Westminster, almost always known as Westminster School, is one of Britain's leading independent schools,, with the highest Oxbridge acceptance rate of any secondary school or college. Located in the precincts of...
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Marlborough College
Marlborough College is an English independent, co-educational boarding school located in Marlborough, Wiltshire.
Founded in 1843 for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy, the school now accepts both boys and girls of all beliefs....
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- 1843
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Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
The Haberdashers' Aske's School or HABS, as it is commonly known by the public, is a British independent school in Elstree, near Borehamwood, in Hertfordshire.
It owes its name to its foundation by the Worshipful Company of Haberdashers (one of the...
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- 1690
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Mill Hill School
Mill Hill School, in Mill Hill, London, is a coeducational independent school for boarding and day pupils aged 13–18. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, an organisation of public schools in the United Kingdom.
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- 1807
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Brentwood School
Brentwood School is a public school in Brentwood, Essex, England. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and of the Haileybury Group of independent schools.
The licence to found the school, as ‘The Grammar School of Antony...
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- 1557 ,
- 1558
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Berkhamsted Collegiate School
Berkhamsted School is an independent school in Hertfordshire, England, formed in 1997 by the amalgamation of the original Berkhamsted School, founded in 1541 by John Incent, Dean of St Paul's Cathedral, Berkhamsted School for Girls, established in...
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King Edward's School, Birmingham
King Edward's School (KES) (grid reference SP052836) is an independent secondary school in Birmingham, England, founded by King Edward VI in 1552. It is part of the Foundation of the Schools of King Edward VI in Birmingham, and is widely regarded as...
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- 1552
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Fordham University
Fordham University is a private university in the United States, with three campuses located in and around New York City. It was founded by the Roman Catholic Diocese of New York in 1841 as St. John's College, placed in the care of the Society of...
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- 1841
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- Fordham College at Lincoln Center ,
- Fordham College of Business Administration ,
- Fordham College of Liberal Studies ,
- Fordham College at Rose Hill
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Fettes College
Fettes College is an independent boarding and day school in Edinburgh, Scotland. It is often referred to as a public school in common with the traditional independent schools in the UK.
To perpetuate the memory of his only son William, who had...
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- 1871
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Bradford Grammar School
Bradford Grammar School (BGS) is a co-educational, independent school in Frizinghall, West Yorkshire. Headmaster, Stephen Davidson is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC). The school was founded in 1548 and granted its...
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- 1548
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Wellington College, Berkshire
Wellington College, the national monument to the Duke of Wellington, is an English co-educational public school located in the Berkshire village of Crowthorne. The school was granted its royal charter in 1853 as the Royal and Religious Foundation of...
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Chigwell School
Chigwell School is an English co-educational independent school/public school in Chigwell, in the Epping Forest district of Essex. It was founded in 1629 by Samuel Harsnett, a former Archbishop of York (even though G. Stott suggests it was more...
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- 1629
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Tonbridge School
Tonbridge School is a British boys' independent boarding school (a public school in the specialised British sense of the term) in Tonbridge, Kent, founded in 1553 by Sir Andrew Judd (sometimes spelled Judde). It is a member of the Eton Group of...
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- 1553
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Uppingham School
Uppingham School is a co-educational independent school situated in the small town of Uppingham in Rutland, England.
The school's current Headmaster, Richard Harman MA, is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference and the school is...
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- 1584
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Ipswich School
Ipswich School is a co-educational public school situated in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It was founded in its current form as The King's School, Ipswich by Thomas Wolsey in 1528.
Located north of the town centre, Ipswich School is comprised of four...
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Bury Grammar School
Bury Grammar School is an independent grammar school in Bury, Greater Manchester, England, that has existed since c.1570. The current headmaster is the Reverend Steven Harvey MA. The previous headmaster, Keith Richards MA, retired after sixteen...
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Manchester Grammar School
The Manchester Grammar School (MGS) is the largest independent day school for boys in the UK (ages 9–18). It is based in Manchester, England. Founded in the 16th century as a free grammar school, it was housed on a site adjacent to Manchester parish...
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- 1515
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Bristol Grammar School
Bristol Grammar School is a co-educational independent school in Clifton, Bristol, England.
It was founded in 1532 by two brothers, Robert and Nicholas Thorne, when it was housed in the St Bartholomew's Hospital, as part of the new founding of...
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- 1532
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Solihull School
Solihull School is a British Independent school situated near the centre of Solihull, West Midlands, England. 2010 sees Solihull School celebrate its 450th anniversary since its foundation in 1560.
It has approximately 900 day pupils, of whom 260...
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- 1560
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Bolton School
Bolton School is an independent school in Bolton, Greater Manchester, in the North-West of England.
Established as Bolton Grammar School, it is not known exactly when the Boys' School was founded, though it is recorded as being a 'going concern' as...
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Wycombe Abbey
Wycombe Abbey is one of the most famous independent girls' schools in Britain. It is situated in High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England. It is academically one of the top schools in the United Kingdom, and the top girls' boarding school (in terms of...
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- 1896
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Dover College
Dover College is a co-educational independent school in Dover, Kent, England. It was founded in 1871, and takes both day pupils and boarders.
In 1869 Robert Chignell, who had a private school at Westmount, in Folkestone Road, leased part of the...
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- 1871
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Blundell's School
Blundell's School is a co-educational independent boarding school (sometimes referred to as a public school) located in Tiverton in the county of Devon, England. The school was founded in 1604 by the will of Peter Blundell, one of the richest men in...
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- 1604
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Plymouth College
Plymouth College (PMC) is a co-educational independent school in Plymouth, Devon, England, for day and boarding pupils from the ages of 11 to 18. It was founded as a boys' school in 1877 and became coeducational in 1995.
The school was established...
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- 1877
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Stonyhurst College
Stonyhurst College is an independent, Roman Catholic school in the Jesuit tradition. It is located on the Stonyhurst Estate near Clitheroe in rural Lancashire, England, where it occupies a Grade I listed building.
The school was founded in 1593 by...
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Bedford School
Bedford School is not to be confused with Bedford Modern School or Bedford High School.
Bedford School is a public school for boys in Bedford, Bedfordshire, England and one of five run by the Harpur Trust.
Bedford School comprises the Preparatory...
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- 1552
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Millfield
Millfield is an independent school in Street, Somerset, England. It caters for 1,260 pupils, of which 910 are boarders. The school's selection criteria are non-academic and some pupils receive subsidised tuition in the form of scholarships and...
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- 1935
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Royal Grammar School, Newcastle
Royal Grammar School Newcastle upon Tyne, known locally and often abbreviated as RGS, is a long-established co-educational, independent school in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It gained its Royal Charter under Queen Elizabeth I. It is a member of...
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- 1525
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Cheadle Hulme School
Cheadle Hulme School (CHS) is an Independent day school in Cheadle Hulme, in the Metropolitan Borough of Stockport, Greater Manchester in the North-West of England. It is for both boys and girls aged 4–18 years old. It was formed as The Manchester...
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- 1855
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Pangbourne College
Pangbourne College is a coeducational public school located in the civil parish of Pangbourne, just south-west of the village, at Bowden, in the English county of Berkshire.
The college was founded by Thomas Lane Devitt in 1917 as Pangbourne...
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- 1917
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Oakham School
Oakham School is a British independent school in the market town of Oakham in Rutland, accepting around 1,000 students, aged from 10 to 18, both male and female, as boarders and day pupils (including about 10% from overseas). The Good Schools Guide...
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- 1584
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Magdalen College School, Oxford
Magdalen College School is an independent school for boys located by The Plain in Oxford, England. It was founded as part of Magdalen College, Oxford by William Waynflete in 1480.
The Good Schools Guide described the school as having "A comfortable...
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- 1480
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Felsted School
Felsted is a public school situated in the village of Felsted, in Essex, England. It was founded in 1564 by Richard Rich, 1st Baron Rich (also known as Riche) who, as Lord Chancellor and Chancellor of the Court of Augmentations, acquired...
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- 1564
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Wolverhampton Grammar School
Wolverhampton Grammar School is a prestigious public school located in the city of Wolverhampton. It is a fee paying mixed sex day school which was founded in 1512 by Sir Stephen Jenyns, a master of the ancient guild of Merchant Taylors, who was...
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- 1512
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Dauntsey's School
Dauntsey's School is a co-educational independent day and boarding school in the village of West Lavington, Wiltshire, England. The School was founded in 1542, in accordance with the will of William Dauntesey, a master of the Worshipful Company of...
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- 1542
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- HONOR DEO
King Henry VIII School
King Henry VIII School is an independent school comprising a senior school (ages 11–18) and associated preparatory school (ages 3–11) located in Coventry, England. The senior school has approximately 800 pupils (120 in each of years 7–11 and 100 in...
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- 1545
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Colfe's School
Colfe’s is a co-educational independent day school in Horn Park in the London Borough of Greenwich. The school is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference. The official Visitor to the school is HRH Prince Michael of Kent.
Colfe's...
The Abbey School
The Abbey School is an independent selective school for girls, in Reading, Berkshire, England. The school has Church of England traditions, although it accepts girls of all faiths. The Abbey School offers education for girls aged 3 to 18.
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- 1887
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Saffron Walden County High School
Saffron Walden County High School is a coeducational comprehensive school for ages 11–18 in Saffron Walden, Essex, England. The headmaster is John Hartley.
Saffron Walden County High School is a specialist Technology College and is accredited by the...
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- 1951
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Bootham School
Bootham School is an independent Quaker boarding school in the city of York in North Yorkshire, England. It was founded by the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1823. It is close to York Minster. Jonathan Taylor is the current headmaster who...
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- 1823
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West Buckland School
West Buckland School is an English independent school located on the outskirts of the village of West Buckland on the edge of Exmoor, 8 miles (12.9km) east of Barnstaple, Devon. It comprises a senior school (including a sixth form), preparatory...
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- 1858
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Royal Wolverhampton School
The Royal Wolverhampton School began life as The Wolverhampton Orphan Asylum in 1850. It was founded by John Lees, a local lock-manufacturer and freemason, after a cholera epidemic ravaged the town and left many children orphaned. The orphanage was...
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Birkenhead School
Birkenhead School is an independent, selective, co-educational school located on the Wirral Peninsula in the north-west of England. It is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference.
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- 1860
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Bryanston School
Bryanston School is a co-educational independent boarding school in Blandford, north Dorset, England, near the village of Bryanston. It was founded in 1928. It occupies a palatial country house designed in the late nineteenth century by Richard...
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- 1928
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Framlingham College
Framlingham College is an independent, coeducational boarding and day school in the town of Framlingham, near Woodbridge, Suffolk, England. Together with its junior school, Brandeston Hall, it serves pupils from 2 to eighteen years of age.
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- 1864
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St Albans School
St Albans School is a Public School in St Albans, England. Founded in 948 by Abbot Wulsin, St Albans School is not only the oldest school in Hertfordshire but also one of the oldest in the United Kingdom and Europe. The Good Schools Guide describes...
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Bloxham School
Bloxham School (All Saints' School) is an independent co-educational day and boarding school located in the village of Bloxham, three miles from the town of Banbury in England. It was founded in 1860 by the Reverend Philip Reginald Egerton and has...
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- 1860
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The Oratory School
The Oratory School is the only Catholic, all-boys public boarding school left in Great Britain. It has approximately 420 boys and is located in Woodcote a village near Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
The Oratory School was founded under the...
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- 1859
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Hipperholme Grammar School
Hipperholme Grammar School is an independent grammar school in Hipperholme (near Halifax), West Yorkshire, England. It educates pupils between the ages of 11 and 18.
It is believed the school was founded in 1530 within the chantry chapel of the...
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- 1648
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Wells Cathedral School
Wells Cathedral School is a fee-paying public school located in Wells, Somerset, England. The school is one of the five established musical schools for school-age children in the United Kingdom, along with Chetham's School of Music, the Yehudi...
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Rossall School
Rossall School is a British, co-educational, public school (an independent school in England) in between Cleveleys and Fleetwood, Lancashire. Rossall was founded in 1844 by St. Vincent Beechey as a sister school to Marlborough College which had been...
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- 1844
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Dollar Academy
Dollar Academy is Scotland's oldest boarding school, with a 70-acre (280,000 m) campus set in the shadow of the Ochil Hills in the village of Dollar, Clackmannanshire. Founded in 1818 by Captain John McNabb, it is the oldest co-educational school in...
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- 1818
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Queen's College, Taunton
Queen's College is a co-educational public school located in Taunton, the county town of Somerset, England. It is an independent day/boarding school for children aged 2–18. The school incorporates Nursery, Pre-Prep, Junior and Senior schools. The...
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Guildford Grammar School
Guildford Grammar School, informally known as Guildford Grammar or GGS is an independent day and boarding school for boys, situated in Guildford, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia.
The school is a member of the Public Schools Association and the...
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- 1896
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Exeter School
Exeter School is a selective independent co-educational day school for students between the ages of 7 and 18 located in Exeter, Devon, England. In 2007 there were around 165 pupils in the Junior School and 675 in the Senior School. The school...
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- 1633
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Royal Russell School
Royal Russell School is an independent co-educational day and boarding school in Coombe near Croydon, South London. The moto of the school is "Non sibi sed omnibus" meaning "Not for self but for all".
The pre-prep and prep schools are in separate...
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- 1853
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Bethany School
Bethany School is an independent boarding and day school in Goudhurst, Kent in the United Kingdom. Since its foundation in 1866, the school still puts great emphasis on its Anglican character and education for those with learning difficulties. Being...
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- 1866
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Prior Park College
Prior Park College is a Roman Catholic co-educational boarding school. It is situated on a hill overlooking the city of Bath, in Somerset, England. It has been designated by English Heritage as a grade I listed building. One of the wings of the...
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- 1830
