Gastrell noted in 1720s: 'A Grammar school kept here, but no settled sal[ary] for the Master, who is mon[inated] by Mr Legh of Lime', Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, I, 304. J.P. Earwaker, East Cheshire, 2.101 says there was a school here from the beginning of the seventeenth century, if not before. Date taken here as 1625 from register entry for burial of Mr William Jackson, schoolmaster, on 2 June 1625.