St Hugh's School

St Hugh's was established at Morland House, Chislehurst, Kent, in 1906, before moving to Lamas House (which became a hospital during the First World War) and then Widmore Court in nearby Bickley, then in Kent. During the Second World War the school was evacuated to Malvern Wells in Worcestershire. During the school's absence from Kent, its buildings became the temporary wartime offices of Hodder & Stoughton. However, these were destroyed by a V-1 "Doodlebug" in the early morning of 27 June 1944. The school did not, therefore, return to Kent after the war but relocated to Carswell Manor then in Berkshire, a Jacobean country house with grounds. The school bears the name of Hugh of Avalon,…