Hanford School

Hanford School is a girls' boarding preparatory school located in Hanford, near Shillingstone, Childe Okeford, Dorset, England, established in 1947 and located in a grade II* listed house built in 1604 by Sir Robert Seymer.

Background

The school does not have a motto.

Sue Carpenter described the school as "an adorable throwback to an Enid Blyton era, set in a Jacobean manor and beautiful grounds in Dorset, where pupils canter over the downs before breakfast and do scripture classes in the box-hedge garden."

The two houses are called the Main House and Fan’s House.

History

Hanford House was built in Jacobean style in 1604, or 1620, and completed in 1623, by Sir Robert Seymer, who was a teller of the Exchequer and who was knighted in 1619, and whose family had lived in Hanford for several centuries, and the small Gothic chapel was built in 1650. Country Life magazine wrote in 1905 that "the chapel is a picturesque building with a high gable, pleasant to look at, and within are several memorials of the Seymers."