Fyling Hall School

Fyling Hall is an independent co-educational day and boarding school situated near the small village of Fylingthorpe, near Robin Hood's Bay, 7mi south east of Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1923 by Mab Bradley, the school was then run for thirty years by her daughter, Clare White. The school is centred on a Georgian country house that dates from 1810 and is situated in 45acre of wooded hillside within the North York Moors National Park. History of HallThere was a hall here in 1632 when Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet was born here. However the present building dates from around 1810. Boarding HousesThere are four boarding houses at Fyling Hall: Woodside: Sixth Form Girls Ramsdale: Sixth Form Boys Main: Junior and Senior Girls Mulgrave: Junior and Senior BoysSchool mottoThe school motto is 'The days that make us happy make us wise' (John Masefield)SportsFyling Hall School offers a wide variety of sports for all pupils. Most important amongst these, and shaping daily life at Fyling Hall, are rugby, hockey, cross country, cricket, horse riding and rounders. TriviaThe main building of Fyling Hall is used in G. P Taylor's novel Shadowmancer as the vicarage of Obadiah Demurral. The vicarage is destroyed by cannon fire from Jacob Crane's smuggler ship 'The Magenta'.

Fyling Hall is an independent co-educational day and boarding school situated near the small village of Fylingthorpe, near Robin Hood's Bay, 7mi south east of Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1923 by Mab Bradley, the school was then run for thirty years by her daughter, Clare White. The school is centred on a Georgian country house that dates from 1810 and is situated in 45acre of wooded hillside within the North York Moors National Park. History of HallThere was a hall here in 1632 when Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet was born here. However the present building dates from around 1810. Boarding HousesThere are four boarding houses at Fyling Hall: Woodside: Sixth Form Girls Ramsdale: Sixth Form Boys Main: Junior and Senior Girls Mulgrave: Junior and Senior BoysSchool mottoThe school motto is 'The days that make us happy make us wise' (John Masefield)SportsFyling Hall School offers a wide variety of sports for all pupils. Most important amongst these, and shaping daily life at Fyling Hall, are rugby, hockey, cross country, cricket, horse riding and rounders. TriviaThe main building of Fyling Hall is used in G. P Taylor's novel Shadowmancer as the vicarage of Obadiah Demurral. The vicarage is destroyed by cannon fire from Jacob Crane's smuggler ship 'The Magenta'.