British Schools Museum

The British Schools Museum is an educational museum based in original Edwardian and Victorian school buildings in Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. The museum complex is made up of listed school buildings housing infants, girls and boys schools with houses for Master and Mistress.

Photo: Jack1956, Public domain.

Type: Museum
Description: education museum in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom
Also known as: “British schools museum”

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include St Mary’s Church, Hitchin and The Sun Hotel.

St Mary’s Church, Hitchin

Church

Photo: Jack1956, CC0.

St Mary's Church is a Church of England parish church in Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. St Mary's Church is the largest parish church in Hertfordshire, and is remarkably large for a town of the size of Hitchin — this has been cited as evidence of how Hitchin prospered from the wool trade. St Mary’s Church, Hitchin is situated 690 feet northwest of British Schools Museum.

The Sun Hotel

Hotel

Photo: OLU, CC BY-SA 2.0.

The Sun Hotel is situated 580 feet west of British Schools Museum.

Hitchin Town Hall

Town hall

Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Hitchin Town Hall is a municipal structure in Brand Street, Hitchin, Hertfordshire, England. The town hall, which was the headquarters of Hitchin Urban District Council, is a Grade II listed building. Hitchin Town Hall is situated 1,400 feet northwest of British Schools Museum.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hitchin and Charlton.

Hitchin

Photo: Dudley Miles, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Hitchin is a town with 33,350 inhabitants in 2011 35 mi miles north of London in the county of Hertfordshire. Hitchin is an old market town first mentioned 1,000 years ago.

Charlton

Hamlet

Charlton is a hamlet in the county of Hertfordshire, in the East of England. It is a component hamlet of the market town of Hitchin, forming a part of the Hitchin Priory ward.

Bearton

Suburb

Photo: David Howard, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Bearton was a small hamlet lying to the north of Hitchin in Hertfordshire, England. It was incorporated into Hitchin over a century ago, and now forms part of the Hitchin Bearton ward of North Hertfordshire District Council.

British Schools Museum

Categories: historic house museum, independent museum, education museum, tourism, and tourist attraction
Location: North Hertfordshire District, Hertfordshire, East of England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

51.94628° or 51° 56′ 47″ north

Longitude

-0.2758° or 0° 16′ 33″ west

Open location code

9C3XWPWF+GM

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1742641499

OpenStreetMap feature

tourism=museum

Wikidata ID

Q4971021

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