St. Edmund's School is a coeducational nursery, pre-prep and preparatory school originally founded in Hunstanton

Hunstanton

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, Norfolk, England in 1874, and subsequently moved to Hindhead

Hindhead

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, Surrey, England in 1900, where the school moved into a large country house named Blen Cathra, previously a home of George Bernard Shaw

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, and residing on 35 acres (14.2 ha) of land. The original school in Hunstanton was purchased by Howard Cambridge Barber in 1901 and renamed Glebe House School

Glebe House School & Nursery

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External links

• Official St. Edmund's School website