Westwood High School for Girls, Leek

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Date:1950 - 1965 (c.)

Description:Situated in Westwood Park and built around an earlier 17th century house, it was purchased in 1813 by local potter John Davenport as a family house. The Bell Tower is one of the modifications designed by Sheffield based architects Weightman, Hadfield & Goldie and built in 1851-1853.
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A school since 1921, it became a mixed comprehensive school in 1965 and it is now a school academy known as Westwood College.

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Westwood Hall, Leek

The original Westwood Hall building dates from the 1600s. Originally it was a fairly simple farm-house, ...

Westwood High School for Girls, Leek

Situated in Westwood Park and built around an earlier 17th century house, it was purchased in 1813 by ...

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Source: Staffordshire Museum Service

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