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"This Good Work"
By Fiona Taplin

A History Of Education In Bridport 1238 - 2000

How did such a relatively poor community such as Bridport manage to build and fund so many schools?

Who gave the money - and why? Where was Bridport's first Grammar School?

In this book, Fiona Taplin sets out to track down the answers to these and many similar questions. The result illuminates an aspect of local history often neglected by historians. Schools, their pupils and teachers, often merit no more than a chapter at most.

This book sets out to redress the balance. It traces the histories of the many schools that have served the communities of Bridport and Allington - and their neighbour parishes of Bothenhampton, Bradpole and Pymore -from the middle-ages to the present day.