Bolton School
Bolton School is an independent day school in Bolton, Greater Manchester. It comprises a co-educational nursery and infant school (Beech House) and single sex junior (ages 7–11) and senior schools (with sixth forms). With almost 2,400 pupils it is one of the largest independent day schools in the country.HistoryBolton School is one of the oldest schools in Lancashire; established as Bolton Grammar School, it is not known exactly when the boys' school was founded, though it is recorded as being a going concern as early as 1516. In 1524, William Haigh of Wigan left land worth 33s 4d towards the maintenance of a schoolmaster to teach grammar in Bolton. In 1644, it was endowed by Robert Lever and so began a long and close relationship with the Lever name. In 1899, the school moved from its site next to the parish church in central Bolton, to its current site on Chorley New Road.The Bolton Girls' Day School was established in 1877 and was one of the earliest public day schools for girls in the country. It was quickly renamed to Bolton High School for Girls and moved to the Park Road site (where the current Junior Boys' School stands) in 1891; here it was opened by the suffragist Mrs Millicent Fawcett and had a school roll of 67 girls.In 1913, Sir William Hesketh Lever, later the first Viscount Leverhulme, gave a generous joint endowment to the Bolton Grammar School and the Bolton High School for Girls, on condition that the two should be equal partners known as Bolton School (Girls' and Boys' Divisions). On 1 April 1915, the Bolton School Foundation formally came into existence.