Rolle College, Educational institution in Exmouth, England
Rolle College is a former teacher training institution in Exmouth, England, spread along Douglas Avenue and made up of several named buildings including Fairfield, Brockhurst House, and Eldin House. The campus also included sports facilities and residential buildings that housed students during their studies.
The college was founded in 1946 as a training institution for women who wanted to become teachers, and over the following decades it grew to accept both men and women. It merged with the University of Plymouth in 2008, ending its independent existence.
Rolle College was for many years the place where people from across the region came to train as teachers, giving the site a strong connection to local schools. Today the site serves a community of deaf students, and that sense of learning continues in a different form.
The site now operates as a school for deaf students and is not open to general visitors. If you are interested in seeing the grounds from outside, walking along Douglas Avenue gives a good view of the main buildings.
The college takes its name from the Rolle family, a local landowning family whose influence in the Exmouth area dates back several centuries. That name lives on in the neighborhood even though the institution itself no longer exists in its original form.
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