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• when was Marlborough college founded and where?

  1843 on the site of the Castle Inn
• What is Marlborough College?

  A leading private school
• What can be found on the grounds of marlb college?

  Merlin's Mound.

  • 4000 year old human built hill
  • Said to be the burial place of merlin the wizard
• What have a distinctive look and colour- marlb collegr?

  red bricked buildings
• what does the high street host and when?

  A twice weekly market

  SINCE 1204
• What was Marlborough described as and when?

  • 17th century- was described as:
  • "many goodly shops well filled with rich and costly commodities, silks and.............."
• However ,what are opening on the highstreet?

  more and more chain stores
• Describe St Peters church?

  Medieval Church dating back to 1460
• When did St PETERS church STOP FUNCTIONING as a PROPER CHURCH AND WHY?

  1970s because Marlborough did not need two churches
• What does St Peters Church now act as?

  Community Centre for concerts, lectures, meetings and other uses
• Describe Merchants House?


  Rare Gabled House
• how old is the merchants house?

  350+ years
• where is merchants house found?

  Middle of the high street
• when did the council buy the merchants house?

  1991

  • is now run as a charitable trust whose funds go towards restoring the property
• what does the merchants house now host?

  educational events and a museum
• What is St Johns?

  state-school academy
• when did st johns open?

  1975
• history of st johns?

  • past- was on 2 sites
  • reopenened 2010
• why was the st johns single site project DELAYED SEVERAL TIMES?


  complaints from residents
• what happened to the old school buildings on chopping knife lane?

  Sold and redeveloped for housing
• where is st johns located?

  outskirt of town on Granham Hill and is not easily visible from the town centre