Sherfield School
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| Motto | "Ad Vitam Paramus" |
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| Established | 2004 |
| Type | Independent day & boarding |
| Head Master | Mr Nick Fisher |
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Sherfield on Loddon Hampshire RG27 0HU England |
| DfE number | 850/6084 |
| DfE URN | 134769 Tables |
| Gender | Coeducational |
| Ages | 3 months–18 |
| Website | School website |
Sherfield School is a coeducational independent day & boarding school, with nursery, pre-prep, prep and senior departments serving pupils aged 3 months to 18. It is located at old Sherfield Manor in Sherfield on Loddon in the English county of Hampshire. It is a school of over 400 pupils which offers day education as well as weekly and flexible boarding and was founded in 2004 by GEMS Education.
Until 2003 the site was the location of the North Foreland Lodge girls boarding school, founded in 1909; and settled at old Sherfield Manor in 1947.
The Sherfield Manor House site has a long history stretching back to the 12th Century AD and the medieval period. In the early 12th century it was part of the manor of Odiham, but was granted by Henry II to his Marshall, William FitzAdelm sometime prior to 1167 AD. This created the manor of Sherfield Upon Loddon; it is assumed that William Fitz Aldelm built the first manor house subsequently.
For the next several hundred years, the manor of Sherfield Upon Loddon passed between various noble families (including the Marquis of Winchester and later the Duke of Wellington). Archer Lodge was built on the Sherfield Manor house site in the 16th Century and was the residence of Paynton Pigott Stainsby Conant – a wealthy landowner. Some 300 years later (in 1870) this was demolished by John Bramston Stane, who erected a new house in the regal Victorian style, called Buckfield, in the middle of a wood of the same name. In 1880 the site was renamed to Sherfield Manor and by 1897 had been further encased and extended.
The Liddell family became holders of the manor house in 1908. They were the last family in the manor house to host courts responsible for jurisdiction over minor offences, local administration and the regulation and customs of the Sherfield Upon Loddon manor. Their son, John Aidan Liddell won both the Military Cross and the Victoria Cross for bravery. The latter was won as a pilot in the Royal Flying Corps, but its occasion was also to lead to Captain Liddell's death from the injuries he suffered.
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