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From its beginnings on a 5 acre site here, the college and its playing fields occupied 90 acres by the 1930s and today covers more than 130 acres.


An early painting of Bishop’s Stortford College



Rev R. Alliot (left) and F.S Young (right). The school’s first two headmasters who, between them, served for 63 years.


Pupils and teacher pose outside the school in the 19th century when it was called the Nonconformist Grammar School.


Waytefield (No 96 Hadham Road) then and now. When pupils were first accommodated here in 1917, only half of the house was used. It was fully utilised as a boarding house between 1922 and 1938 and later became Hayward House.


Westfield Lodge (No 94 Hadham Road) was a college boarding house between 1903 and 1933.


1905: A classroom in the old Grammar school at Hadham Road.


The Grammar school Dining Room, also pictured in 1905


Hadham Road at the turn of the last century


The leafy Hadham Road is lined with many fine old houses.


The Chantry’s interior in the early 1900′s


The Chantry before a modern extension was added to its western end in the 1980s.


Grays, once allied to Handscomb’s store, occupied a large part of the Chantry from the 1930s until the mid 1980s.

BELLS HILL BRICKLAYERS ARMS WAYTES CROSS ROADSIDE CROSSES
BISHOP'S STORTFORD COLLEGE MAZE GREEN ROAD THE PLAGUE HADHAM ROAD
MAPLE AVENUE DANE O'COYS SILVER LEYS THE ROBIN HOOD CHANTRY ROAD
RAYMENTS FORGE THE CHANTRY HALF ACRES MONKS WALK MEDIEVAL SOCIETY

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