Copp School
The origin of the free school at Copp has not been discovered, but the earliest endowment to be found dates from 1719, when William Fyld, yeoman, of Great Eccleston, left the remainder of his personal estate, amounting to about £250, to be invested in trustees, and the interest to be paid yearly for a Master to teach Poor Children here, or in some other part of the township." By
his will, dated 1st of April, 1748, William Gaulter bequeathed £242 to certain trustees to augment the stipend of the master of this school, and directed that in case the educational
establishment should ever be abandoned, or the terms of the will not be observed, the annual income derived from his bequest should be distributed amongst the poor inhabitants of the neighbourhood. In 1866 the school was temporarily closed, whilst the charity was under the revision of the Charity Commissioners ; and in 1871 a new and more commodious building was erected.
Lane Head School
There is also another school in this township, called Lane Head school, held in a building erected by subscription on the site ofthe original one, which had collapsed through age. The only endowment is a rent charge of $ supposed to have been left by Thomas Clitherall. William Fyld, of Great Eccleston, bequeathed 2 annually to the poor of that township.