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221:. The school amalgamated with a school called South Lodge from Sawbridgeworth, Herts in Autumn 1938. In September 1940 the school merged with the remnant of The Limes School of Croydon, Surrey which had evacuated to Langton Matravers, Dorset for the school year 1939/40. In 1939 the first girl was admitted to the school; she became a member of the cricket XI and won the Fielding Cup. In 1940 boys slept in the basement for a time because of air raids. 31: 212:
By the early 1930s the Hampstead School had rapidly grown and the New End site no longer met its requirements. In January 1934 the Headmaster, Reverend Arthur Wells, moved the school again with its 32 pupils to the present location at Woodhall Estate in
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It was Philip Boteler (d.1592), who gained the warrant to create a common around the house and thus founded Woodhall as an estate. This original park enlarged during the early and late seventeenth century, but it was not until 1838 that a herd of
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in 1796. In 1934 it was relocated to a Georgian mansion on the Woodhall Estate in rural Hertfordshire. For the 2022 academic year, 498 students were enrolled: boarding pupils and day pupils and girls and boys.
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for boys and girls between the ages of 3 and 13. The school won the "Songs of Praise School Choir of the Year" competition in 2012 and came runners-up in the new format in 2019.
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in 1777. This neo-classical house is still extant, although it was enlarged some years later. The house with the surrounding land was then purchased by
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with a few girls admitted as a temporary measure; the school was not fully open to girls until 1976. The sports hall was built in 1984 and a
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in 1796 for the schooling of ‘boys and young gentlemen’. The first Headmaster, Reverend John Hunter, rented a house on
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There are records of a house at Woodhall since 1372. However, the original structure named Woodhall was a large
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Manor that was positioned at the top of the Avenue and was home to the Boteler family until the 1770s.
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purchased the estate in 1774. He demolished the remnants of the house and built a new one devised by
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Heath Mount thrived in its new surroundings and continued as a school during the
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were introduced and that the park wall, park railings, lodges, gatehouses and
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The Woodhall Estate mansion, known as Woodhall Park, is a
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Watton-at-Stone
Hertfordshire
Independent
Co-educational
http://www.heathmount.org
prep school
Watton-at-Stone
Hertfordshire
Hampstead
boarding school
Heath Street
Hampstead
Hampstead Heath
Watton-at-Stone
Hertfordshire
Second World War
preparatory school
independent school
Woodhall Park
Grade I
Georgian
neo-classical style
Tudor
fallow deer
ha-ha
Thomas Rumbold
Thomas Leverton
Samuel Smith (1754–1834)
Member of Parliament

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