The school with no abbey

As I discovered when I plunged back into the world of the Abbey School, there was (barring a temporary aberration) no school at the abbey. And in the very first book in the series, there was no abbey, either. Elsie J. Oxenham's Girls of the Hamlet Club describes the founding of the eponymous club, which plays a large part throughout the series, with its folk dancing and its May Queens. ( A ridiculously long post on the subject )

( With many footnotes )