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About Park Hall Hotel
Park Hall was the ancestral home of the noble family of Dudley and Ward until 1757. John Ward (great grandson of the first Lord Ward) was admitted to the peerage.
After his departure from the house, it was rented to a catholic school Sedgley Park School, which was moved from Bentley to Sedgley in 1763. Bishop Challoner, who saw the need for more education for children whose parents could not afford to send them to college, founded the school in 1761. Henceforward the house was to be known in catholic circles as Sedgley Park, but the local people always knew it as the Park Hall.
Boys came to the school as young as seven or eight and usually left between thirteen and fifteen to attend colleges abroad. The annual fee was 13 guineas, which meant very strict economy and plain, though plentiful food. The authorities were very proud that each boy had a bed to himself, which was not the case at contemporary Eton and other public schools. A few of the boys went home for the holidays, most staying at school from begining to end of their course. Although the building has obviously undergone much alteration, the main house, known as High House originally stood alone and the offices either side were completely detached.
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