Byrchall High School
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Byrchall High School is a modern Comprehensive school in Ashton-in-Makerfield, near Wigan. It has a mixed intake of both boys and girls and inbetweens aged 11-16. The current student population is 1200. It was founded in 1588 as Ashton Grammar School by Robert Byrchall on land donated by wealthy local land owner William Gerrard. The original builing in Seneley Green is now Garswood Library.
Byrchall High School is one of three Secondary Schools in Ashton, the other two being Saint Edmund Arrowsmith Catholic School and Cansfield High School.