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===Former schools===
[[Parsons Mead School]] was an independent school founded by Jessie Elliston in 1897. In 1904 it moved to its permanent site in Ottways Lane and by the outbreak of the First World War it had 95 female pupils, aged between 10 and 18.<ref name=Parsons+Mead>{{cite web |url= https://www.leatherheadlocalhistory.org.uk/miscellany/potted-history-79.pdf |title= Parsons Mead School |first= Goff |last= Powell |date= September 2015 |website=  |publisher= Leatherhead & District Local History Society |access-date= 12 May 2021 |archive-date= 12 May 2021 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20210512160230/https://www.leatherheadlocalhistory.org.uk/miscellany/potted-history-79.pdf |url-status= live }}</ref> A decline in school numbers forced the school to close in 2006<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/anger-school-puts-up-shutters-4839071 |title= Anger as school puts up shutters |date= 14 July 2006 |work= Surrey Live |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131227042415/http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/anger-school-puts-up-shutters-4839071 |archive-date= 27 December 2013 }}</ref> and the site was sold for housing a year later.<ref name=Parsons+Mead/>