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     DENTDALE    In the Yorkshire Dales National Park

 

 
   
Dent Grammar School Educational Foundation
 
 

The seal of Dent Grammar School
Educational Foundation.

Registered Charity no. 1012330

 


The school dates back to 1604, when King James I gave it a charter.  The school closed in 1897 and became an educational charity.

The present Foundation was formed in 1992 by a merger with the Hodgson Educational Charity.

 


Photograph: Gordon Neal

Please note that the school is now converted to flats and privately occupied.

 

400th Anniversary of the founding of Dent Grammar School
    The new, special anniversary edition of the booklet of the history of the
Dent Grammar School by David Boulton [price £2.00] is now available from
Dent shops, Cafes and the St.Andrew's Church.

 

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DENT GRAMMAR SCHOOL GOVERNORS
 Dr D. Wright (Chairman)
Mrs W. Cooke (Vice-chairman)
Mr B.R. Bannister
Rev. P.J. Boyles
Mr J. Cairns
Mrs L. Cragg
Mr G. Dalton
Mr B. Goad
Mr K.G. McClurg
Mrs B. Osborne
Mr P. Stephenson
Mr G.Woof
 

 

Address for correspondence:
c/o Dr D Wright, Chairman DGSEF,
      East Backstonegill Farm, Dent.  LA10 5TE

e-mail address for DGSEF: backstonegill@beeb.net