What is Marple Hall School?
[[File:Marple Hall School.jpg|300px|thumb|{{center|Marple Hall School}}]] '''Marple Hall School''' is a specialist language [[college]] in [[Marple]], [[Greater Manchester]], [[England]].<ref name=Marple>{{cite web |url=http://www.marplehall.stockport.sch.uk/ |title=Marple Hall School; A Specialist Language College |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website= |publisher=Marple Hall School |accessdate=1 February 2014}}</ref> The headteacher is Mr. Joseph Barker.<ref name=Council>{{cite web |url=http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/education/educationtrainingandemployment/schoolsandothereducetablishments/secondaryschools1/marplehallsch |title=Marple Hall School |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date= |website= |publisher=Stockport Metropolitan Borough Council |accessdate=1 February 2014 |archive-date=6 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140706032127/http://www.stockport.gov.uk/services/education/educationtrainingandemployment/schoolsandothereducetablishments/secondaryschools1/marplehallsch |url-status=dead }}</ref> The school is on the outskirts of Greater Manchester, near the [[River Goyt]].<ref name=Council/> == History == Marple Hall was a [[manor house]] once owned by [[John Bradshaw]].<ref name=Freethy30>Ron Freethy, ''Riverside Rambles - Along the Mersey'' (Wilmslow: Sigma Leisure, 2004), p. 30</ref> Born at Marple Hall, Bradshaw was first a clerk, then a [[lawyer]]. After the [[English Civil War]] he was the first to sign the death warrant of [[Charles I of England]].<ref name=Freethy30/> The house was later owned by the Isherwood family. The ruins of the house are still near the grounds of the school. Two of the modern buildings are named for these two. In 1960 a [[grammar school]] was built on the grounds of the manor. In 1965 the school had separate schools for boy and girls. In 1974 it became Marple Hall County High School. This school is for both boys and girls. == References == {{reflist}} {{UK-stub}} [[Category:Schools in England]]