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Hawkshead Grammar School in Hawkshead, Cumbria, England was founded in 1585 by Archbishop Edwin Sandys, the incumbent Archbishop of York, whose family came from the Hawkshead area.
Situated in the quaint Lake District village of Hawkshead, the Hawkshead Grammar School Museum gives insight into school life from 1585 to 1909. The classroom houses a collection of historic classroom furniture and artefacts used in the School, some of which date back to the Seventeenth Century.
Hawkshead Grammar School. Founded in 1585, Hawkshead Grammar School taught grammar (Latin grammar) and the principles of the Greek tongue and other sciences necessary to be taught in a grammar school. The sciences included arithmetic and geometry sufficient to meet the practical needs of the businessman, surveyor, or navigator.
Hawkshead Old Grammar School is a historic 16th-century building in the heart of Hawkshead, famous as the place where poet William Wordsworth went to school and carved his name on a wooden desk. Part of the Lake District Travel Guide on Britain Express.
William Wordsworth and his brothers Richard, John and Christopher attended the Grammar School and boarded with Ann Tyson, first in Hawkshead and later in Colthouse, about half a mile away along the shore of Esthwaite Water.
Wordsworth attended Hawkshead Grammar School from ages 8-16. The school was started in 1585 to educate the sons of Protestant families after the Reformation. It taught Latin and Greek grammar, arithmetic, geometry, sciences, modern history and the classics with the aim of preparing boys for entrance to Cambridge.
Situated in the pretty Lake District village of Hawkshead, the Grammar School Museum tells the story of school life since its founding in 1585. Our most famous pupil was William Wordsworth and in its heyday this was considered one of the best schools in the north of England.
