[2] Sandroyd School was originally established by Louis Herbert Wellesley Wesley.

[3] The school is in the south of Berwick St John parish, near the village of Tollard Royal and the county border with Dorset.

[5] In 1939, in anticipation of the Second World War, the school moved to Rushmore House, home of the Pitt-Rivers family.

The house lies in the centre of Cranborne Chase on the borders of Wiltshire and Dorset.

A link between the two sites is that Sandroyd House was built in 1860 for the pre-Raphaelite painter John Roddam Spencer Stanhope by the architect Philip Webb (1831–1915), the friend of William Morris, and it was Webb who remodelled the interior of Rushmore for General Pitt Rivers twenty years later.