page_title: Uffington, Oxfordshire
section_title: Tom Brown's School Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Uffington, Oxfordshire / Tom Brown's School Museum
caption_attribution_description: English: UK Uffington School plaque dated 1617
context_page_description: Uffington is a village and civil parish in Oxfordshire, about 4 miles south of Faringdon and 6 miles west of Wantage.
  The 2011 Census recorded the parish's population as 783.
  It was originally in the county of Berkshire, but under the Local Government Act 1972 it was transferred for local government purposes to Oxfordshire.
  The Uffington White Horse hill figure is on the Berkshire Downs on the south side of the parish.
context_section_description: The village school mentioned in the book "Tom Brown's Schooldays" is now Tom Brown's School Museum, with exhibits on Thomas Hughes, the Uffington White Horse, and other local subjects.
  A notice board outside the building includes the following history: 
  The Old Schoolroom was founded in 1617 by Thomas Saunders, a wealthy merchant from Woolstone, with places for 12 "worthy boys" - 8 from Uffington and 4 from Woolstone.  It is referenced in the well-known book "Tom Brown’s Schooldays", written by Thomas Hughes who was born in Uffington in 1822.
  The building was used as a village reading room from 1872 until 1984 when it became the village museum, and has a collection of 137 editions of Tom Brown’s Schooldays.
  John Betjemen. The museum also has copies of correspondence by John Betjemen, our other village literary great, who lived in Uffington from 1834 to 1945.
  Uffington Village Hall. This is named the Thomas Hughes Memorial Hall after the author of the book "Tom Brown’s Schooldays".
caption: Plaque on wall of old school
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