Girls' Free School, Whiteparish
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On 13th July 1750 Miss Anna Hitchcock left £200, providing an income of £10 a year, for the teaching of reading and needlework to about 10 girls. They were to be provided with proper books and educated to the age of 12. There was also accommodation for fee paying girls. They were taught in the schoolmistresses own home and had to attend church. In the 18th century ladies were not expected to be able to write, even if they could read. The school was near the church and vicarage and by 1818 the mistress was being paid £18 a year. In 1842 the girls were transferred to the new church school and in that November the trustees resolved that the mistress be allowed to teach in the new school.