In 1811 there were weekly schools at Oakridge Lynch, Avenis Green, Chalford Hill, and Eastcombe, and Sunday schools at Bisley and Chalford.

The Bisley Blue Coat School was founded by John Taylor, a clothier of Stroud, who in his will of 1732 devised all his property in Upton St. Leonards to trustees, for the teaching of reading and...

The Bisley Refuge Farm School had been built in 1868 to benefit 150 homeless and destitute boys on an estate of about 120 acres. The boys were taught various useful trades. The Shaftesbury School followed in 1873-4, also for 150 boys, with its own chapel, seating 400.

That earliest recorded was one meeting at the Bell in Bisley in 1797, and from the early 1860s until 1891 a benefit society met at the village school. A branch of the Society of Clothworkers was meeting at Chalford in 1805, and in 1869 there was the Chalford Friendly Society.

Bisley C of E School This page summarises records created by this Organisation The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of...

The free school and the blue-coat school, the latter founded in 1820 for 10 boys, are united, and have an income from endowment of £56 per annum. The charitable endowments of the parish produce annually about £300, of which sum £90 is the income of the church lands.

In 1870-72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Bisley like this: BISLEY, a decayed small town, a parish, a subdistrict, and a hundred in Gloucester. The town stands 1¾ mile N of the Cheltenham and Great Western Union railway, in the neighbourhood of the Sapperton tunnel, and 3¼ miles E of Stroud.

2024年10月18日 · A boys’ refuge farm-school, connected with a farm of 88 acres, was built in 1869 at a cost of about £6000. The living is a rectory in the diocese of Winchester; net value, £146 with residence. The church is ancient, and was restored in 1873.

This book tells the story of how Royston Hertfordshire, Fortescue House Twickenham, and Bisley Schools were founded in Victorian Times for destitute children by William Williams & Lord Ashley, who became the Seventh Earl of Shaftesbury.

Hi, Gloucestershire Archives hold quite a few records of Bisley & Chalford schools. Website: www.gloucestershire.gov.uk/archives Victor