Fyling Hall School

Fyling Hall

Main House in winter and in summer
Motto 'The days that make us happy make us wise'
Established 1923
Type Independent day and boarding school
Headmaster Mr Steve Allen
Deputy Head Dr Ian Richardson
Founder Mab Bradley
Location Robin Hood's Bay
North Yorkshire
YO22 4QD
England
Coordinates: 54°25′32″N 0°33′27″W / 54.425560°N 0.557540°W / 54.425560; -0.557540
DfE number 815/6004
DfE URN 121733 Tables
Students 180~
Gender Coeducational
Ages 4–18
Former Pupils Old Fylinghallers
Website www.fylinghall.org

Fyling Hall is an independent co-educational day and boarding school situated near the small village of Fylingthorpe, near Robin Hood's Bay, 7 miles (11 km) 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, who still takes an active part in the life of the school. The head from 2008 to 2012 was Ken James, who came to Fyling Hall in April 2008 from St John's School, Leatherhead. The school is centred on a Georgian country house that dates from 1810 and is situated in 45 acres (180,000 m2) of wooded hillside within the North York Moors National Park.

History of Hall

There was a hall here in 1632 when Sir Hugh Cholmeley, 4th Baronet was born here. However the present building dates from around 1810.

Boarding Houses

There are four boarding houses at Fyling Hall:

School motto

The school motto is 'The days that make us happy make us wise' (John Masefield)

Sports

Fyling 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 and horse riding and rounders.

Trivia

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 pupils

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