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Wellington College is a private (English fee-charging) boarding and day school in the village of Crowthorne, Berkshire, England. Wellington is a registered charity [1] and currently educates roughly 1,100 pupils aged between 13 and 18. [2] The college was built as a national monument to the first Duke of Wellington, in whose honour it is named. [3]
Crowthorne is the location of Wellington College, a large co-educational boarding and day independent school, which opened in 1859, and of Broadmoor Hospital, one of England's three maximum-security psychiatric hospitals, which lies on the eastern edge of the village.
Wellington College, a fictional liberal arts college, setting of the 2005 novel On Beauty by Zadie Smith; Wellington College, Berkshire, an independent school in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England Wellington College International Shanghai; Wellington College International Tianjin; Wellington College Belfast, a grammar school in Belfast, Northern ...
The trees were planted in the early 1860s (most sources report around 1863 and 1865, [3] [5] [6] [7] though other sources state the planting began as early as 1859 [8] or 1861 [9] or as late as 1869 [3]) as a memorial to the Duke of Wellington, who had lived in the nearby Stratfield Saye estate. The two rows of trees forming the avenue are ...
Wellington College opened in 1867 as Wellington Grammar School in Woodward Street, though Sir George Grey gave the school a deed of endowment in 1853. In 1869 the school moved to a new, spired, wooden building on the hills above the central city in Clifton Terrace from where it could be seen from many places in Wellington. [ 4 ]
The Wellington Academy, founded in 2009, is an 11–19 non-selective state-funded co-educational day and boarding school near Ludgershall, Wiltshire, England. The school has academy status and was initially supported by Wellington College , an independent school in Berkshire.
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Wellington College Prep (formerly Eagle House School) is a 3–13 co–educational preparatory school near Sandhurst in Berkshire, England. Founded in 1820, it originally only admitted boys, keeping them "until they went out into the world", [ 2 ] however, as of 2000, it admits both boys and girls.