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Marlborough College is a public school (English private boarding school) for pupils aged 13 to 18 in Marlborough, Wiltshire, England. It was founded as Marlborough School in 1843 by the Dean of Manchester, George Hull Bowers , for the education of the sons of Church of England clergy. [ 1 ]
Marlborough Mound is a Neolithic monument in the town of Marlborough in the English county of Wiltshire. Standing 19 metres (60 ft) tall, it is second only to the nearby Silbury Hill in terms of height for such a monument. Modern study situates the construction date around 2400 BC. [1] It was first listed as a Scheduled Monument in 1951. [2]
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There is a youth football club, Marlborough Youth FC, with over 350 players that play in the North Wiltshire Youth Football League. There is a cricket team whose 1st X1 compete in the WEPL Wiltshire Premier Division. Marlborough Hockey Club play at Marlborough College. [37] A parkrun takes place on Marlborough Common every Saturday. [38]
Silbury Hill is a prehistoric artificial chalk mound near Avebury in the English county of Wiltshire. It is part of the Stonehenge, Avebury and Associated Sites UNESCO World Heritage Site . At 39.3 metres (129 ft) high, [ 1 ] the hill is the tallest prehistoric man-made mound in Europe [ 2 ] and one of the largest in the world; it is similar in ...
Marlborough College Register from 1843 to 1904 Inclusive by Marlborough College (Oxford: Horace Hart, 1905). Paths of Progress: a history of Marlborough College by Thomas Hinde (John Catt, 1992) ISBN 0-907383-33-5; Marlborough College – official site
The road passes underneath a covered bridge that links Morris House of Marlborough College to the North Block of the same establishment. [17] The college is an independent boarding school established in 1843 using some of the buildings that remained after the demise of the coaching trade, which saw the original Castle Inn Coaching House close.
Marlborough White Horse, also called the Preshute White Horse, is a hill figure on Granham Hill, a fairly shallow slope of the downland above the hamlet of Preshute, southwest of Marlborough in the county of Wiltshire, England. Dating from 1804, it is one of several such white horses to be seen around Great Britain, and one of nine in Wiltshire ...