Tyneham Village School Picture

Tyneham school was built in the 1850s to provide an education for the children of Tyneham village and nearby Worbarrow. A tiny school built to educate 50-60 children, Tyneham school was open until 1932, closing 11 years before Tyneham village was requisitioned by the MOD. Tyneham school closed its doors in 1932 due to dwindling numbers, with just 9 children being on the records at the time of its closure. Tyneham school today has been restored and laid out as if the village was still full of children with their workbooks displayed on the childrens desks and nametags on the coathangers. Tyneham school is usually open until around 4pm on days when access to Tyneham village is permitted. Tyneham School is well worth visiting during your visit to Tyneham village, in some ways it is very similar to a traditional English primary school of today, only much smaller. Typical lessons that would have been taught at Tyneham school are shown by the childrens books. The Tyneham school logbook also shows that absence increased during busy periods of Tyneham villages year such as during the harvest when Tynehams children were needed to help out in the fields along with the rest of the Tyneham villagers.