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| | 1736 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08) |
 | | In 1736 the Rev. Montague Wood, Rector of St Michael Royal, London founded the first school in Woodborough and endowed it with 60 acres of land at Blidworth, Stapleford and Woodborough. |
 | | The rents and profits from this land were administered through Trustees and used to provide a salary for the schoolmaster and for repairs to the school building. |
 | | The subjects taught were, English, French, Latin and Greek languages, writing, arithmetic, merchants’ accounts, geometry, algebra, surveying, navigation, astronomy, or any particular branch of mathematical or philosophical learning, music and dancing when required. |
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