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Old Grammar School, Heversham
Heversham Grammar School
locality:-   Heversham
civil parish:-   Heversham (formerly Westmorland)
county:-   Cumbria
locality type:-   school
coordinates:-   SD49778358
1Km square:-   SD4983
10Km square:-   SD48

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BUR62.jpg (taken 9.6.2011)  
evidence:-   old map:- OS County Series (Wmd 42 11) 
source data:-   Maps, County Series maps of Great Britain, scales 6 and 25 inches to 1 mile, published by the Ordnance Survey, Southampton, Hampshire, from about 1863 to 1948.
"Grammar School (Endowed)"
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
item:-  Dawson's Close
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.323  "Rosegill, Oct. 2."
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"HEVERSHAM, founded in 1613, by Edward Wilson, esq. of Heversham Hall, and endowed by him with the yearly rent charge of 21l. 3s. 10d. issuing out of certain burgage messuages and tenements in Kendal, and a rent charge of 3l. a year, issuing out of a field in Strickland Ketel called Dawson's Close. In 1773 the sum of 230l. was raised by subscription by the Rev. Henry Wilson, Vicar of this parish, for the better endowment of this School, which was laid out in the pur-"
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag 1823
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Gentleman's Magazine 1823 part 2 p.324  "[pur]chase of a dwelling house, out-houses, and two fields in Heversham. This School has several exhibitions both to Oxford and Cambridge."
evidence:-   old text:- Gents Mag
source data:-   Magazine, The Gentleman's Magazine or Monthly Intelligencer or Historical Chronicle, published by Edward Cave under the pseudonym Sylvanus Urban, and by other publishers, London, monthly from 1731 to 1922.
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Gentleman's Magazine 1825 part 1 p.515  "Compendium of County History. - Westmorland."
"At HEVERSHAM Free Grammar School were educated Bp. Watson, Ephraim Chambers, author of the Encyclopedia; Bishop Preston, and many others. Bishop Watson's father was head master 40 years, and educated Chambers. He was also born here, as were his father, grandfather, &c. - In the church is interred the mother of Ephraim Chambers."
evidence:-   descriptive text:- Ford 1839 (3rd edn 1843) 
source data:-   Guide book, A Description of Scenery in the Lake District, by Rev William Ford, published by Charles Thurnam, Carlisle, by W Edwards, 12 Ave Maria Lane, Charles Tilt, Fleet Street, William Smith, 113 Fleet Street, London, by Currie and Bowman, Newcastle, by Bancks and Co, Manchester, by Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh, and by Sinclair, Dumfries, 1839.
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"[Heversham] ... a grammar-school, at which Bishop Watson received his early education under the immediate superintendence of his father, ..."
hearsay:-  
 Founded by Edward Wilson, to promote godliness and good learning, 1613.
Ephraim Chambers went to school here; he published Chambers Dictionary, 1728.
An outbreak of typhus in the 1890s was blamed on contamination of St Mary's Well by effluent from the school privies of the 'Old School'. The school was moved to Leasgill, 1891.
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