Somerhill is a prep school in

Somerhill House Somerhill House () is a Grade I listed Jacobean mansion situated near Tonbridge, Kent, United Kingdom. It was built for The 4th Earl of Clanricarde in 1611–13. The estate was sequestrated by Parliament in 1645, and restored to its rightful ...

in Kent, overseen by Somerhill Charitable Trust. The school comprises three sections

Yardley Court Yardley Court is an independent day preparatory school for boys in Tonbridge, Kent, England, founded in 1898 by Mr and Mrs A.L.Bickmore. It now forms part of Somerhill, a public school in the British sense of the term. There are currently around ...

, Derwent Lodge and Somerhill Pre-Prep. Yardley Court is for boys aged 7–13, Derwent Lodge for girls aged 7–11 and Somerhill Pre-Prep is a mixed school for aged 2 1/2 - 7 boys and girls."Somerhill Pre Prep"
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History

Yardley Court was founded in 1898 in

Tonbridge Tonbridge ( ) is a market town in Kent, England, on the River Medway, north of Royal Tunbridge Wells, south west of Maidstone and south east of London. In the administrative borough of Tonbridge and Malling, it had an estimated population ...

, and came to the Somerhill site in 1990 in order to expand. Derwent Lodge, established in the 1930s, followed in 1993, moving from their

Tunbridge Wells Royal Tunbridge Wells is a town in Kent, England, southeast of central London. It lies close to the border with East Sussex on the northern edge of the Weald, High Weald, whose sandstone geology is exemplified by the rock formation High Roc ...

town centre home which they had outgrown. Somerhill Pre-Prep was established in 1995. These three schools were separate, as the Schools at Somerhill, until 2018, when saw the potential for integrating and building one school community with shared facilities, vision and purpose

References

Preparatory schools in Kent Schools in Tonbridge {{Kent-school-stub