1818 (population 826 in 1811) In 1818 vicar Thomas Rickards reported that there was no school for poorer children in Cosby, but that ‘The poorer classes are very anxious to possess the means of educating their children’. 1833 (population 1,009 in 1831) There were now six infant schools in Cosby and Littlethorpe containing about 72 … Continue reading Schools in Cosby and Littlethorpe, 1818-1914