Local tradition is that there are 2 ghosts associated with the Old Grammar School. A figure of a gaunt school boy, obviously hungry, has been seen in the upstairs of the building. This may reflect the poor conditions that some headmasters imposed on their students. There is also a record of the ghost of a small black boy sitting on the cobbles outside the school. In Georgian times, fashionable ladies often had a small black boy sit on the rear of their coaches. Did this boy fall off a coach and was he run over?
Queen Elizabeth I signed a charter for a Grammar School in 1585. The school opened in 1603 with a central schoolroom on the ground floor, a dormitory above and houses for the headmaster and his assistant either side.
The Rev William Langley was the Head Master of The Old Grammar School for nearly 43 years in the late 1700s.