Hawkshead Grammar School

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Hawkshead Grammar School is a historic English school in Cumbria best known for educating the Romantic poet William Wordsworth.

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instanceOf grammar school
historic school
architecturalStyle vernacular Lake District style
associatedWith Wordsworth Trust
surface form: William Wordsworth Museum network
buildingMaterial stone
country England
currentUse museum
educationLevel secondary education
foundedBy Sir Edwin Sandys
surface form: Edwin Sandys
foundedIn 1585
founderOccupation Archbishop of York
fundingType endowed school
genderAdmission boys
governance governed by a board of governors
hasCollection 18th-century school furniture
documents relating to William Wordsworth’s schooling
historic school books
hasExhibition William Wordsworth school life
history of education in Hawkshead
hasFeature headmaster’s study
scholars’ signatures on desks
schoolroom
heritageStatus listed building
knownFor association with English Romanticism
educating William Wordsworth
languageOfInstruction English
Latin
locatedIn Cumbria
Hawkshead
Lake District
North West England
near St Michael and All Angels Church, Hawkshead
notableAlumnus Dorothy Wordsworth
Thomas de Quincey
surface form: Thomas De Quincey

William Wordsworth
operatedAsSchoolUntil 1909
originalPurpose free grammar school for boys
region South Lakeland district
surface form: South Lakeland
religiousAffiliation Church of England
status former school
subjectOf Hawkshead Grammar School Museum
tourism open to the public

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William Wordsworth educatedAt Hawkshead Grammar School