Buxton College was a boys' school in Buxton

Buxton

Buxton is a spa town in Derbyshire, England. It has the highest elevation of any market town in England. Located close to the county boundary with Cheshire to the west and Staffordshire to the south, Buxton is described as "the gateway to the Peak District National Park"...

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Derbyshire

Derbyshire is a county in the East Midlands of England. A substantial portion of the Peak District National Park lies within Derbyshire. The northern part of Derbyshire overlaps with the Pennines, a famous chain of hills and mountains. The county contains within its boundary of approx...

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History

It was founded in the 16th century and moved to a new building in 1881. The new building was by William Pollard of Manchester. It became a County Grammar school in 1923/4. It had a boarding house

Boarding house

A boarding house, is a house in which lodgers rent one or more rooms for one or more nights, and sometimes for extended periods of weeks, months and years. The common parts of the house are maintained, and some services, such as laundry and cleaning, may be supplied. They normally provide "bed...

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It later merged with the comprehensive, giving it two campuses, at Kent's Bank (former site of Kent's Bank Secondary Modern Boys School), and College Road (former site of Buxton College). It merged with the local girls' school in 1990; this was the former Cavendish Grammar School on Corbar Road and Silverland Secondary Modern School for Girls on Peveril Road - these two school sites are now housing estates. It formed Buxton Community School

Buxton Community School

Buxton Community School is a comprehensive school in Buxton, Derbyshire, England. Deb Hill is the headteacher, and the school is a specialist sports college....

 at the College Road campus. http://www.school-portal.co.uk/GroupHomepage.asp?GroupID=14422

Current use

The Kent's Bank site became the site for Buxton Library. Former pupils of the school denote themselves as Old Buxtonians.

Former pupils

• Hugh Hickling, author
• David John Hodgkins, Director, Resources and Planning, Health and Safety Executive,
• Edmund Ashworth Radford
  Edmund Ashworth Radford
  Edmund Ashworth Radford was a British Conservative politician.He was the son of George Radford of Manchester and Church Stretton. Following education at Buxton College he became a chartered accountant in 1902....
  
  , MP
• Robert Waller
  Robert Waller (pundit)
  Robert Waller is a British election expert, author, teacher, and former opinion pollster. His best known published work is The Almanac of British Politics , a guide to the voting patterns of all United Kingdom parliamentary constituencies.Education and CareerEducated at Buxton College secondary...
  
  , election expert
• Thomas Wright (1859-1936), Author