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St Hugh's School, Faringdon
St Hugh's School is a preparatory school near Faringdon in Oxfordshire. The school is co-educational, day and boarding, offering both weekly and flexi-boarding, and has 350 pupils aged 3 to 13 years. HistorySt Hugh's was established at Morland House, Chislehurst, Kent, in 1906,[1] before moving to Lamas House (which became a hospital during the First World War) and then Widmore Court in nearby Bickley, then in Kent. During the Second World War the school was evacuated to Malvern Wells in Worcestershire.[2] During the school's absence from Kent, its buildings became the temporary wartime offices of Hodder & Stoughton. However, these were destroyed by a V-1 "Doodlebug" in the early morning of 27 June 1944.[3] The school did not, therefore, return to Kent after the war but relocated to Carswell Manor then in Berkshire,[4] a Jacobean country house with grounds.[5] The school bears the name of Hugh of Avalon, Bishop of Lincoln from 1181 to 1200. It is a member of the Independent Association of Preparatory Schools and is administered as a charitable educational trust by a board of governors. For many years St Hugh's was solely a boys' full boarding school but since 1977 it has also taught girls.[6] In 2011, St Hugh's was a co-educational boarding school for children between the ages of three and thirteen. It had some children who were being taught to overcome dyslexia.[7] Notable former pupils
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