AMHERST SCHOOL
- WITCHES LANE
TN13 2AX SEVENOAKS, KENT
Phone: 01732 452577
Fax: 01732 464007
www.amherst.kent.sch.uk
Short profile:
Amherst Primary School in Riverhead, Sevenoaks, Kent
Detailed description:
His military life and the governorship which followed being over, he returned to Riverhead where he had lived as a boy in a small house called 'Brooks' overlooking the square. He later acquired the house and estate to the south west of the village and called it Montreal. Here his family lived and descendants continued to live until the first quarter of the last century. Thus, under the patronage of the Amhersts, our village was developed. To house the estate workers, houses were built on which the family crest can still be seen (see image alongside).
Lord Amherst gave money for our parish church of St. Mary's, and this was completed in 1831. So the village can be thought of as a family village. In 1871 the Amhersts built the school.
The tuition fee was a penny a week. Prior to the opening of the Amherst school, there had been a dame school in the village and this continued for some time as a second place of learning.
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