Oxenfoord Castle School was a girls' private boarding school, based at Oxenfoord Castle, Pathhead, Midlothian, near Edinburgh in Scotland.
The school was founded in 1931 and closed in 1993. [1] [2] It was founded by Lady Marjorie Dalrymple, [1] sister of John Dalrymple, 11th Earl of Stair. [3]
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