 In 2010 the Good Schools Guide described Amesbury as "a forward thinking yet, in many ways, traditional prep that manages to combine a purposeful approach with a relaxed atmosphere".The Reverend Edmund Fowle, the son of the vicar of Amesbury, Wiltshire – Rev.Fulwar William Fowle – founded his school in 1870 in Redhill in Surrey, as Amesbury House.