Editing Ickleton (section)

===Schools===
[[File:The Old School - geograph.org.uk - 791804.jpg|thumb|Former parish school, now the village hall]]
There are records from 1601 and 1625 that Ickleton had a schoolmaster, and from 1638 and 1678 that part of the church was used as the schoolroom. However, the school later lapsed and it was not until 1804 that the vicar started a [[Sunday school]]. There was a day school in the parish by 1825 and two by 1833, which seem to have been [[dame school]]s.<ref name=VCH/>

In 1846 a [[British and Foreign School Society|British School]] was opened in the Congregational chapel's schoolroom. It had 70 pupils an 1870, was still open in 1888 but there is no later record of it.<ref name=VCH/>

The vicar started a Church of England day school in about 1848 in a room in Mill Lane. A purpose-built school and schoolmaster's house for the school in Church Street were completed in 1871 and enlarged in 1884. The number of pupils increased from 57 in 1872 to 103 in 1888. The school closed in 1961, was bought by the village and converted into the [[village hall]].<ref name=VCH/>