Mid C19th century villa built c1849 and extended 1854 by local Quaker, John Ransom. Between 1869-73, rented to the newly founded College for Women, a pioneering institution of female education of national importance. Became a private residence again once the College for women moved to the newly opened Girton College, Cambridgeshire during 1873. Converted to a maternity hospital c. 1957, later becoming a nursing home.
Val Campion, author of the HHS publication Pioneering Women: the Origins of Girton College in Hitchin – see publications.
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