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Wixenford School, also known as Wixenford Preparatory School and Wixenford-Eversley, was a private preparatory school for boys near Wokingham, founded in 1869. A feeder school for Eton, after it closed in 1934 its former buildings were taken over by the present-day Ludgrove School .
Ludgrove lifts the Caldicott Athletics Shield. Congratulations to the boys in the Athletics Squad who ran, jumped and threw to the best of their abilities to win the Caldicott Athletics Shield and, in the process, made history as the first Ludgrove team to do so!
Richard Cowley Powles (1819–1901), known often as Cowley Powles, was an English cleric, academic and founding headmaster of Wixenford School . Early life[edit] He was the son of John Diston Powles, [1] and was educated at Helston Grammar School under Derwent Coleridge. There he met Charles Kingsley, a friend for life. [2] .
Wixenford is an area of the civil parish of Wokingham Without in which Ludgrove School stands. It adjoins Wokingham and is in the English county of Berkshire. Name. The area was developed by the former Wixenford School, which closed in 1934.
In 1937 the school moved to its current site at Wixenford, Wokingham under an hour from central London. This new location would ensure that the founding rural character of Ludgrove would remain and gave great scope for growth and improvement.
History. There has been a school on the site of St Neot's since 1869 when the Reverend Richard Powles, a childhood friend of Charles Kingsley, leased the newly built Wixenford House and opened it as a boys' boarding school.
Wixenford School, Wokingham. This page summarises records created by this Organisation. The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually including the covering dates of...
