Where to find Victorian Schools:
England
- Bedfordshire
- Birmingham
- Balsall Heath Victorian Classroom
- Berkshire
- Reading Museum Service Buckinghamshire
- Cambridgeshire
- Cheshire
- Cornwall
- Victorian School Room Project Cumberland
- Derbyshire
- Devon
- Tiverton Museum Dorset
- Durham
- Essex
- Royal Gunpowder Mills Gloucestershire
- Dean Heritage Centre Hampshire
- Herefordshire
- Hertfordshire
- British Schools Museum, Hitchin
- Huntingdonshire
- Kent
- Lancashire
- Leicestershire
- Lincolnshire
- Wilderspin National School
- London/Middlesex
- Ragged School Museum
- Norfolk
- Great Cressingham Victorian School
- Northamptonshire
- Northumberland
- Nottinghamshire
- Southwell Workhouse Oxfordshire
- Rutland
- Shropshire
- Park Hall
- Somerset
- West Somerset Rural Life Museum
- Staffordshire
- Suffolk
- Surrey
- Rural Life Centre, Farnham
- Guildford Museum
- Sussex
- Weald and Downland Museum
- Tyne & Wear
- Donnison School
- Warwickshire
- St. John's House Museum
- Chilvers Coton Heritage Centre
- Wiltshire
- Sevington Victorian School
- Worcestershire
- Yorkshire
WALES (including Monmouthshire)
- Anglesey
- Brecknockshire
- Caernarfonshire
- Carmarthenshire
- Cardiganshire
- Victorian School, Tregaron
- Denbighshire
- Flintshire
- Glamorgan
- Merioneth
- Monmouthshire
- Montgomeryshire
- Pembrokeshire
- Radnorshire
- The Judge's Lodging
SCOTLAND
- Aberdeenshire
- Angus/Forfarshire
- Argyllshire
- Ayrshire
- Banffshire
- Berwickshire
- Buteshire
- Cromartyshire
- Caithness
- Clackmannanshire
- Dumfriesshire
- Dumbartonshire
- East Lothian/Haddingtonshire
- Fife
- Inverness-shire
- Kincardineshire
- Kinross-shire
- Kirkcudbrightshire
- Lanarkshire
- Midlothian/Edinburghshire
- The Victorian Schoolroom
- Morayshire
- Nairnshire
- Orkney
- Peeblesshire
- Perthshire
- Renfrewshire
- Ross-shire
- Roxburghshire
- Selkirkshire
- Shetland
- Stirlingshire
- Sutherland
- West Lothian/Linlithgowshire
- Wigtownshire
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Victorian Schools and Victorian Schoolrooms in the UK
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Camp Mill, Soudley
Forest of Dean,
Gloucestershire GL14 2UB
01594 822170
The Dean Heritage Centre has many different attractions of which one is a Victorian Schoolroom. There is also a Victorian Forester's Cottage. The Centre offers a number of school educational programmes, and visiting classes can dress up and take a lesson under the tutilage of Miss Wright.
Church Walk
Sunderland, SR1 2BN
0191 565 4835
The Donnison School was built in 1798 as part of the legacy of Elizabeth Donnison specified in her will in 1764. The building was originally established as a charity school for 36 girls drawn from Sunderland Parish.
The School and the house of the schoolmistress, which was added in 1827, were rescued from dereliction and fully restored, and is now open to school visitors and classes can enjoy teaching in the schoolroom.
(no website at the moment)
Beaulieu Drive
Waltham Abbey, Essex, EN9 1JY
01992 707360
The Royal Gunpowder Mills provide two programmes for visiting school groups. Victorian Life includes a Victorian School lesson, games, and teaching about the working life of a Victorian child. Victorian Christmas includes practical activities such as making Christmas cards and decorations, and playing Victorian parlour games, plus an exploration of traditional Christmas fare.
Approx charge for 26 children £169
Tiverton, Devon
01884 256295
Museum is sited in the old National School building built in 1841
Victorian childhood and School experience, and teaching about Victorian washday. Teaching provided for school groups
Approx charge for 25 children £100 (adults free)
Southwell, Nottinghamshire
01636 817260
Former workhouse, now owned by the National Trust. Open to visitors March to October. Explore how the poor were treated in Victorian times.
Teaching provided for school groups
Approx charge for 25 children: from £65 see website
Farnham
01252 795571
Recreated Victorian School
Teaching provided
Approx charge for 25 children £15 for half hour
Norfolk
01328 838230
Genuine Victorian School
Teaching provided
Wiltshire
01249 783070
Genuine Victorian School
Teaching provided
Approx charge for 25 children £75
Guildford Museum
Castle Arch
Guildford
Surrey
GU1 3SX
Tel: 01483 444750
Email: victorianschoolroom@guildford.gov.uk
Recreated Victorian Classroom
Teaching provided
Approx charge for 25 children £156
Activities for KS1 and KS2 children in a specially recreated Victorian classroom facility, where children dress in Victorian costume and follow a Victorian style role play recreation.
Activities include: Recitation, Physical drill, Object lesson/needlework,Copperplate handwriting.
Shropshire
01691 671123
Recreated Victorian School
Teaching provided
Approx cost for 25 pupils £140 (includes other items)
Wales
01974 298977
Recreated Victorian Schoolroom
Teaching not provided
Cornwall
01872 272205 Ext 245
Recreated Victorian Schoolroom
Teaching provided
Approx cost for 25 pupils: £105
Wales
01544 260650
Museum with resources
No teaching provided
London
020.8980.6405
Recreated Victorian Schoolroom in former Victorian School
Teaching provided
Approx cost for 25 pupils: £140
Chichester
01243 811459
Genuine Victorian School
Approx cost for 25 pupils: £105
Hertfordshire
01462 420144
Genuine Victorian School
Teaching provided
Approx cost for 25 pupils: £130
Lincolnshire
01652 635172
Genuine Victorian School
Teaching provided
Approx cost for 25 pupils: £75
0118 937 3400
The museum features a recreated Victorian Schoolroom in which visiting classes are able to experience a Victorian lesson at the hands of teachers dressed in period costume. There is also a chance to explore artefacts of the time. Open all the year during term time.
9 Brunswick Road, Edinburgh, EH7 5NG
0131 556 4224
Open all year round during term time, on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday mornings.
Authentically decorated self-contained hut in the grounds of a Victorian school
Teaching provided
Approx cost for 25 pupils £50
Balsall Heath Local History Society, St Paul's Venture, B12 8NJ
0121 464 1888
Real Victorian classroom
Teaching provided
Approx cost for £25 per hour
Available any day of week throughout the year. Artefacts and teaching materials available for those that cannot visit.
Warwick
01926 412069
Teaching provided
Cost £50
Nuneaton, The Victorian Schoolroom
02476 7632 5822
Genuine Victorian School now a heritage centre
Teaching provided
Minehead
01643 862529
Genuine Victorian School
Teaching provided
Approx charge for 25 children £75
