Editing Stonyhurst (section)

==Buildings==
[[Image:Stonyhurst College.jpg|252px|thumb|right|[[Stonyhurst College]]]]
{{see also|Stonyhurst College|Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall}}
[[Stonyhurst College]] and [[Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall]] are Jesuit boarding schools with approximately 800 pupils in total, most of whom are boarders. The schools are connected by parallel footpaths through the woods, known as Brothers' Walk. The name derives from the fact that before the schools became co-educational, pupils from the college would take the route to visit their younger brothers at Saint Mary's Hall although the term could originate from when St Mary's Hall operated as a [[seminary]] for trainee Jesuits. They walked along the path reciting the [[Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius]]. A number of teachers and Jesuit priests work and live on the site. Adjacent to the school buildings are workshops employing masons and craftsmen working on the maintenance and restoration of the buildings. There is a large mill which was once a granary but is currently used as a sawmill. {{citation needed|date=November 2013}}

The [[St Peter's Church, Stonyhurst|Church of St Peter]] is the parish church for the neighbouring village of [[Hurst Green, Lancashire|Hurst Green]].<ref>[http://www.salforddiocese.org.uk/parishes/masstimes.html#STONYHURST Parish details (Mass times and Websites)] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070502121806/http://www.salforddiocese.org.uk/parishes/masstimes.html |date=2007-05-02 }}</ref> The [[Stonyhurst Observatory]] began operations in 1838, transferring to a new building in 1866. The records of temperature taken there are the oldest continual daily records in the world. Today, the observatory is one of four used by the [[Met Office]] to provide temperature data for central England.

The estate contains the two [[hamlet (place)|hamlet]]s of Stockbridge and Woodfields, both of which are inhabited by teachers from [[Stonyhurst College]]. [[Stonyhurst Saint Mary's Hall#Hodder Place|Hodder Place]], the former site of the preparatory school is now divided into residential flats which are privately owned; the grounds remain part of the estate. Richard Sherburne built an almshouse on Longridge Fell, the predecessor of the Sherburne Almshouse, which his son Sir Nicholas built in circa 1707. The latter was dismantled in 1946 and re-erected in [[Hurst Green, Lancashire|Hurst Green]].<ref name=autogenerated2/>