Falconbury School
Falconbury School was a prep school based in Peaks Hill, now in the London Borough of Croydon.
Falconbury's buildings in Purley became home to The John Fisher School in 1931; a former Catholic Public and Boarding School, latterly a highly selective Catholic day school and now a non-selective Catholic comprehensive school for boys.
At Peaks Hill
Peaks Hill at the time, was a rural neighbourhood in north Surrey; it has since merged with the expansion of Croydon and these days is more suburban in nature.Falconbury school prepared boys for entry to some of the major Public Schools in England; including Eton College and Sherborne School.
History
Falconbury was founded in 1899 by George Mannings Faulkner.Relocations
In 1903/4, the school relocated to Purley, which was then part of Surrey.In 1930, the school relocated again, this time to Little Common, near Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex.
In 1940, Falconbury School temporarily relocated to Astrop Park in Oxfordshire until the end of WWII.