Tudor Hall was founded in 1850 in
Salisbury, by the Rev. John Wood Todd and his wife Martha, and moved to the
Forest Hill area of London in around 1854, initially at Perry Hill House, and later at Red Hall, or Tudor House, from which the school's name emerged. By the 1900s, the school had expanded and was in need of more space. In 1908, it moved to
Chislehurst in Kent. The school later went through difficult times and had to be closed for a term in 1935. Former pupil Nesta Inglis, elder daughter of banker and
Marylebone Cricket Club amateur
cricketer
Alfred Inglis, took over as headmistress and reopened the school. At the outbreak of
World War II, the school relocated to
Burnt Norton, near
Chipping Campden,
Gloucestershire, to escape air raids. However, it outgrew the property during the war. Inglis came across some land outside Banbury,
Oxfordshire, and the purchase was made in February 1944. The school moved to the new location in January 1946. Tudor Hall owned a prep school, Carrdus School, which closed in 2025, allegedly because of the Labour government imposition of
VAT on private school fees. ==Boarding==