Beech Hall School

Beech Hall School was founded in 1926 as a preparatory school for boys. The site which Beech Hall stands on dates back to the Iron Age, where it would have been used as a defensive site. The house named Beech Hall has been in existence on the site since 1435, when it was the main residence of the Worth family. In Victorian times it was called Higher Beech; it has been called Beech Hall since the start of the 20th century. Beech Hall itself is a large country house set in over sixteen acres of wooded grounds. In 1960, the swimming pool at Beech Hall School was built; during excavation a Bronze Age clay pot, which contained burial bones, was discovered. In 1966, the school became a limited…