St Hugh's School is a preparatory school near

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. The school is co-educational and has 350 pupils aged 3-16 years. The school offers day and boarding for children to 13, and day school for children up to 16.

History

St Hugh's was established at Morland House,

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, Kent, in 1906, before moving to Lamas House (which became a hospital during the

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) and then Widmore Court in nearby

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, then in Kent. During the

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the school was evacuated to

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. During the school's absence from Kent, its buildings became the temporary wartime offices of

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. 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

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, a Jacobean country house with grounds. The school bears the name of Hugh of Avalon,

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from 1181 to 1200. It is a member of the

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and is administered as a charitable educational trust by a board of governors. For many years St Hugh's was solely a boys' full boarding school but since 1977 it has also taught girls. In 2011, St Hugh's was a co-educational boarding school for children between the ages of three and thirteen. It had some children who were being taught to overcome

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Notable former pupils

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