7-554: Henry Beaufort School is a secondary school in Harestock , a suburb of Winchester , in the county of Hampshire in England . The school was built in 1971 as the first purpose-built, co-educational, comprehensive school in Winchester to serve the new developments created by the new Teg Down, Weeke Manor, and Harestock estates. The school had a full complement of year 7 students and about half
14-713: A complement of year 8 students in its first year of operation. The school grew each year until 1975, when it had a full five years of intake. The school is named after Henry Beaufort , who was Bishop of Winchester and three times Lord Chancellor . On 10 September 2020, three students were severely injured after the Stagecoach bus carrying them to school collided with a bridge it was too high to pass under. Bus driver Martin Walker pleaded guilty to causing injury by dangerous driving . In January 2009, most buildings were refurbished, including exteriors and interiors. This included painting
21-405: Is roughly 3 miles (4.8 km) north-west of Winchester city centre. The parish is 1,300 acres (5.3 km ) in size, and has around 2,800 electors. Littleton was originally a small hamlet outside Winchester and still retains half a dozen houses dating from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; some of them are Hampshire Hall houses. They are clustered around St Catherine's church, and include
28-451: The building the new navy blue and white as opposed to the pale blue and black before. Construction for a new astroturf pitch started in June 2009 and is now complete. The largest of the school buildings, known as "Tower Block," housing the languages and humanities departments, started a refit in 2012. While work was being done, the two departments were required to relocate to temporary buildings at
35-586: The old parsonage beside the church. Later development of housing began chiefly in the early twentieth century. It was decided after the end of the First World War to build a village hall in Littleton, which was to be dedicated to the residents of the village who had been killed during the war. The Memorial Hall was opened in October 1923 and remained the focus of the village for over 70 years. However, over this time
42-511: The population of the village grew steadily, and in the 1990s it became clear that the hall could no longer meet the requirements of the residents. At a meeting in 1995 it was decided that a new hall would be built. The construction of the new hall began in July 1998 and the building was completed in February of the following year. The official opening took place on 15 May 1999, although the first event in
49-530: The top of the site, but they have now returned to the newly refurbished building. Work on the block was completed in March 2014. Harestock Littleton and Harestock is a civil parish consisting of the villages of Littleton and Harestock in the City of Winchester district of Hampshire , England. The population of the civil parish at the 2011 Census was 3,577. Littleton is slightly north-west of Harestock, and
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