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Skippers Hill Manor Preparatory School was founded in 1945. Its name, some say, came from the rarely seen Skipper butterfly.

Another theory was advanced by the famous English Cricketer of the 1940's, CB Fry, who lived at Skippers Hill. His family discovered underground tunnels previously used as safe-deposits by smugglers and their "Skippers".

  

This theory seems more credible, as this area was known to be a centre for the illicit export of wool to France and Holland during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries along with the equally illegal import of tea, spirits, tobacco and silk.


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