Stokelake

Stokelake Residential School was in Chudleigh,

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. It was classed as the senior school of Pitt House School Ltd and the chairman was Mr. M. C.Spedding who was also Chairman of

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in the early 1960s. The site was quite extensive, with a main block, dining with TV - cinema room,

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, and dormitory block. It had a classroom complex, and large

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nasium as well as its own

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. Stokelake also had an excellent football team. The school held 120 pupils at any one time. Its parental school was Pitt House, at

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, which held a further 180 pupils at any one time and another school that was owned by Pitt House School Ltd was Rocklands in

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. Stokelake ceased to be a school when it closed down in 1980 and Pitt House School closed down on 15 May 1984. Defunct schools in Devon Educational institutions disestablished in 1979 1979 disestablishments in England Chudleigh {{Devon-school-stub