| Title | Correspondence and receipted bills relating to protracted negotiations to secure a site for a National School at Ashmansworth in the parish of East Woodhay, promoted by the Revd T D Hodgson; the building of the school; applications for grant aid; the financial difficulties encountered in keeping the school going due to local ratepayers’ apathy. The school opened in January 1872.
Includes, auction sale plan [particular missing] of the Ashmansworth Estate 1862, specification of works 1870, draft conveyance in trust of the site for the school 1870, list of subscribers.
The early part of this correspondence 1862-1864 also deals with the possible setting aside of a site for a church and parsonage house at Ashmansworth. By 1863 the church of the chapelry of Ashmansworth, part of the benefice of East Woodhay, was ruinous and beyond repair and there was no parsonage house or glebe land belonging to the chapelry
Builder: Daniel Pope of North End, East Woodhay. |