Editing Elstree (section)

=== Earlier schools ===
Since the 1780s, a private school has been located in Elstree.<ref name="page 28">Donald P. Leinster-Mackay, ''The rise of the English prep school'', Publisher: Taylor & Francis, 1984, {{ISBN|0-905273-74-5}}, {{ISBN|978-0-905273-74-7}}, 398 pages. ([https://books.google.com/books?id=FnM9AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Hill+House%22+%22elstree+school%22&pg=PA28 page 28])</ref>

[[Elstree School]], a boys' preparatory school, was located in Elstree from 1848 until 1938 before moving to [[Woolhampton]], [[Berkshire]] before the outbreak of the [[Second World War]].

Hillside School was located in Elstree between 1874 and 1886, before eventually becoming [[Dorset House School]] in 1905,<ref name="page 28" /><ref>"[http://www.dorsethouseschool.com/history.html Our History] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110903054510/http://www.dorsethouseschool.com/history.html |date=3 September 2011 }}" Dorset House School website. Retrieved 19 September 2011</ref> (not to be confused with Hillside School in nearby Borehamwood).