In 1603 the yoeman William Fells left £5 for the maintenance of a parish schol. In 1610 a clergyman's will refers to a debt owed him by the schoolmaster of Bidston. But the school was not erected until 1636, when Lord Strange gave land for the school and £200 was raised towards its erection and upkeep by parish subscription. D. Robson, Somer Aspects of Education in Cheshire in the Eighteenth Century, Chetham Soc., 3rd. ser., vol. 13 (1966), 12, 169. See also Gastrell, Notitia Cestrienses, I, 155.