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A white single-story building with a dark pitched roof, central arched porch, and stone-trimmed windows behind a brick wall.

School, Burwell (RGL2024)

School, Burwell

History of the School, Burwell

A 1901 Ordnance Survey map detail showing the school, church site, and graveyard in Burwell with various building outlines.

Burwell, OS 1901

Burwell Chronicle 26/10/1850: On Thursday night or Friday morning some person or persons entered the British School by false keys and took away the missionary box containing £1 5s; also the children’s working flannel and calico leaving the books thrown around the floor. A reward is offered of three guineas upon conviction of the offenders.

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