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St EDWARD'S CHURCH OF ENGLAND PRIMARY SCHOOL

St Edward's Church of England Primary School is situated in Fort Austin Avenue, Eggbuckland, Plymouth.

It started out in about 1778 as Eggbuckland Chantry or Charity School.  The vicar of the parish Church of St Edward, the Reverend George Hunt, subsequently placed it under the control of the the National Society for the Education of the Poor in the Principles of the Established Church and it became the Eggbuckland National School.  Thanks largely to the efforts of the Reverend Hunt, it moved in 1847 to a brand new building situated within part of the garden of the vicarage.

During the 1890s it came under the Eggbuckland and Laira Green School Board and then the Plymouth School Board after that part of the parish of Eggbuckland was absorbed into Plymouth.

That building remained in use until 1971, when the pupils were moved to the present premises in Fort Austin Avenue.

 

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