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Fort Hill Community School was a
coeducational Mixed-sex education, also known as mixed-gender education, co-education, or coeducation (abbreviated to co-ed or coed), is a system of education where males and females are educated together. Whereas single-sex education was more common up to ...
secondary school located in
Winklebury Winklebury and Manydown is a large suburb located two miles north-west of central Basingstoke in the UK. Until the late 1960s Winklebury was a collection of small holdings but Basingstoke's growth as a London Overspill town saw the area become ...
, Basingstoke,
Hampshire Hampshire (, ; abbreviated to Hants) is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in western South East England on the coast of the English Channel. Home to two major English cities on its south coast, Southampton and Portsmouth, Hampshire ...
, England.


Location

The school was built within the ramparts of an
Iron Age The Iron Age is the final epoch of the three-age division of the prehistory and protohistory of humanity. It was preceded by the Stone Age ( Paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic) and the Bronze Age ( Chalcolithic). The concept has been mostl ...
hill fort A hillfort is a type of earthwork used as a fortified refuge or defended settlement, located to exploit a rise in elevation for defensive advantage. They are typically European and of the Bronze Age or Iron Age. Some were used in the post-Roma ...
, ''Winklebury Ring''. Around the school perimeter some of the old ditch site still remains. It is thought that the
Celts The Celts (, see pronunciation for different usages) or Celtic peoples () are. "CELTS location: Greater Europe time period: Second millennium B.C.E. to present ancestry: Celtic a collection of Indo-European peoples. "The Celts, an ancien ...
once established a farming society around this fort. The school was closed in 2018 and demolition of the site commenced in January 2019.


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*http://www.forthillcommunityschool.org/ *http://www.chjs.net *http://www.winkleburyfederation.com/ *http://www.chiltern-pri.hants.sch.uk/ {{Schools in Hampshire Defunct schools in Hampshire Schools in Basingstoke 1977 establishments in England Educational institutions established in 1977 Educational institutions disestablished in 2018 2018 disestablishments in England