Queenwood College

In 1335 Edward III gave the Manor of East Tytherley to his wife, Queen Philippa, who moved her London court there to escape the Black Death.

Queenwood Farm, famous for its yew trees,[1] with some adjoining land was leased to Robert Owen in 1839 by Sir Isaac Goldsmid for 99 years at a low rent.

[2][3] Owen erected a large H-shaped, three-storey, brick-and-flint building on the leaseholding and named it "Harmony Hall".

[10] George Edmondson, sponsored by the Society of Friends, leased Queenswood Farm in 1847 and opened a Quaker school named "Queenwood College".

[10] Upon Edmondson's death in 1863, Charles Willmore ran the school and stayed on, with his family, at Queenwood when the college closed; he died in the 1902 fire.