Fyling Hall School
Fyling Hall is a private, co-educational day and boarding school situated near the small village of Fylingthorpe, near Robin Hood's Bay, 7 mi 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 1819 and is situated in 45 acre of wooded hillside within the North York Moors National Park.
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• Name — Fyling Hall • Motto — 'The days that make us happy make us wise' • Type — Private day and boarding school • Head Label — Headmaster • Head — Steve Allen • Founder — Mab Bradley • Established — 1923 • City — Robin Hood's Bay • County — North Yorkshire • Country — England • Postal Code — YO22 4QD • Urn — 121733 • Enrolment — 180~ • Gender — Coeducational • Lower Age — 4 • Upper Age — 18 • Free Label2 — Former Pupils • Free Text2 — Old Fylinghallers • Website — http: www.fylinghall.org
History
History
There was a hall in 1632 when Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet was born here. However the present building dates from around 1819 and is grade II listed.
Sports
Sports
Fyling Hall School offers a wide variety of sports for pupils.
Popular culture
Popular culture
The 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'.
Notable former teachers
Notable former teachers
• Alex Thomson
School motto
The school motto is 'The days that make us happy make us wise'.
Notable former pupils
• Eliza Carthy • Michael Dickinson • Ryan Gibson • Philip Hayton • Jamie Noon
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- 1.Fyling Hall School - York Press. The York Press. 3 May 2018.
- 2.Kogan Page. The independent schools guide, 2006-2007 : a fully comprehensive directory. 227. 2006. 0-7494-4567-X.
- 3.Fyling Hall offering scholarships in man's memory. Whitby Gazette. 9 November 2017.
- 4.Fyling Hall. 1148676. II.
- 5.Wilkinson, George. Fylingthorpe. York Press. 12 May 2007.
- 6.Mott. Independent schools yearbook, 2012-2013. Bloomsbury Publishing. 1176. 2013. 978-1-4081-8417-2.
- 7.Folk king Carthy honoured for lifetime achievement. Whitby Gazette. 21 February 2014.
- 8.Atkins, Duncan. Second Whitby area cricketer could feature for England. Whitby Gazette. 26 May 2015.
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