Also called Rumworth School. Foundation date taken from VCH, Lancs., II, 616, but Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, II.ii, 40, points to an earlier date. The account in Gastrell is not free from error (it would appear to conflate the schools in Deane, Lancs., and Dean, Cumberland, at one point), but suggests only one master at Deane School. Thus at least one of the schoolmasters listed in 1686 may be better rendered as a parish schoolmaster, and from the details of the licence, this would seem to be the case with John Aldred, who has been so assigned. Note that some licences for the school and for Deane parish listed here are as for Dean in Cumberland. However, the masters in question (Aldred and Boardman) appear consistently in the Deanery of Manchester and so have been taken as for Deane, Lancs.