Early Schools, Brinkworth
Click on a photograph to view it.
John Weeks, who died in 1678, bequeathed a rent charge of £5 to be used for the teaching ten poor children of Brinkworth tithing to read. In 1783 the rector and parishioners were contributing financially in order that more children might be taught and in 1808 the lords of both Brinkworth and Grittenham manors also made contributions. In 1859 HM Inspector William Warburton reported that the school had 40 to 50 pupils of both sexes, taught in a cottage apparently on the north side of the Swindon to Malmesbury road.