Public School, Dinton
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There was a public school for girls and boys in the village, which was said to be very well regulated. Presumably this was the boarding school that was run by the Douty family in the mid 19th century. In 1848 Henry Douty is listed as running the Academy in Dinton but in 1855 Thomas Douty is the proprietor of a boarding school. From at least 1859 until the late 1880s Miss Harriet Douty is the proprietress of the boarding school but it had closed by 1889 when she is listed in the directory for that year as an embroiderer. In the Warburton school census of 1859 it is stated that about ten "farmers'' children were taught in a private school. Assuming that this is the same school it provides an idea of the amount of accommodation and the children taught.