Furtherwick Park School
school in Canvey Island, Essex, England
Furtherwick Park School was a comprehensive co-educational senior school for 11- to 16-year-olds, located on Canvey Island. The school was based in the town centre and opened in 1957 due to the increase of population on Canvey Island.
History
Between 1957 and 1965 it was known as 'Canvey Secondary'. It was renamed to 'Furtherwick Park School' in 1966.
In 1976 sections of the school were damaged by fire.
It celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2007 and received media Arts College status. The school had around 1,000 pupils.
The school closed in 2011 due to a reduction in pupil numbers on Canvey Island, which caused great concern amongst parents. The grounds were reused for the new Castle View School which moved to new buildings on the location of the former school.
In the media
The school was used as a location for the filming of the British film Bloody Kids.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Furtherwick Park School” as school in Canvey Island, Essex, England. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the places & architecture register because the source frames it as school in Canvey Island, Essex, England. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 7, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5509771. Authority coordinates are 51.521, 0.595. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1957, 1965, 1966 and 1976.
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This entry incorporates text from “Furtherwick Park School” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.