Historical place archive

Wimborne in History

Browse historical events and people recorded at Wimborne in England. The records below are rendered directly from the World History Database into this page's initial HTML.

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Historical events in Wimborne

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Queen Elizabeth's School
Margaret Beaufort · House of Tudor

Announced her intention to build a free school for the general public of Wimborne, Dorset. With her death in 1509, Wimborne Grammar School, now Queen Elizabeth's School, came into existence

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