macroban Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > > imagine the village grew as a result of the > schools > > News to King Edgar in 963AD! Well yes, I'm not saying there was nothing here before the school, but the streets of Townley and Calton etc were built in Edwardian times no? You know what I mean Macro, in 963AD there would have been a few adobe huts, the school appeared in the 1600s and the hamlet has grown around it ever since.