Hunsdon House School, Headington
In 1915 Miss K. S. Woods moved to London Road, Headington with her family so that she could go to the University of Oxford. After the First World War the Woods family bought a plot of land in Manor (now Osler) Road, and built a new home which they named Hunsdon House (now No. 12). Miss Woods started teaching in the dining room, and when numbers grew to 15, she rented the garden room of Mrs Blackburn of Sandfield Cottage, a large house which occupied the site of the present Horwood Close.
Then in the garden of Hunsdon House Miss Woods built a wooden school that she called Hunsdon House Garden School. It had windows and doors which could open wide to the south and east, and other nurseries regarded it as a model. In 1931 there were fifteen children at the school, aged between 2 and 8.
From the 1940s the school was owned by Mr & Mrs Archie Utin, and when they retired in 1974 Mrs Rose Marie Deepwell took over. She still owns Hunsdon House Nursery School, which now caters for children aged from 2½ to 5.