School Days
Biddulph North Council School
It was built in 1874, the year that Robert Heath came to live at the Grange. It was a replacement for the small Parish Free School for twelve pupils, built around 1785 and situated at Crabtree Green, now part of the grounds of the National Trust Grange garden. When built it was a small country school with four classrooms, one room separated by cupboards to make two, and tub toilets outside. The infant children were transferred to the newly built Oxhey Infants in 1970 and the Juniors in 1974.
Knypersley School
Built along with the church, parsonage and smithy for John Bateman of Knypersley Hall at Red Cross crossroads by 1849. They were all built from the local sandstone and they remain (except for the smithy), together with Biddulph church and Biddulph Old Hall, the most impressive old buildings in the area today. John and James Bateman paid three thousand pounds for the school and schoolmaster's house to be built.