Garrison School, South Tidworth

The school was started in a turn of the century building in the middle of the garrison and was run by the army. Two temporary huts were added after the First World War and the school continued to educate children from the families of soldiers stationed at Tidworth. In 1948 Hampshire County Council took over the buildings and ran them as two separate schools on adjacent sites, an Infants' and a Junior. Wiltshire schoolchildren left in 1962 when new Junior and Infants' schools were built in North Tidworth. The school became a combined primary school in 1963 and a nursery was added in 1975. From 1st September 1980 the school was amalgamated with the smaller Church of England school at Hampshire Cross and the new school was known as Tidworth Church of England (Controlled) Primary School. It remained at the former garrison school site in Bazaar Road. In 1990 there were 107 children on the school roll. After the boundary changes in 1992 the school came under Wiltshire County Council. The school closed c.1997 and from then children in Tidworth went to the Clarendon or Zouch schools.