In April 2011 six intrepid West Deyne boys and their fathers cycled 200+ hilly miles from Uppingham to Borth in Wales.
The ride commemorated the famous exodus of the school to Borth under the leadership of the school's famous Victorian Headmaster, Edward Thring.
Thring uprooted the entire pupil body, all its staff and a lot of its equipment to Borth in protest at the town authorities' failure to improve the water supply of the town. Poor saniation had resulted in the deaths of several of the pupils and the children of staff.
A year later the school returned after the town authorities had invested in improvements to the town's water supply. This exodus, with its parallels to the biblical accounts Moses leading the Israelites out into the desert is commemorated each year at the school in chapel during the Borth Service.
