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Fyling Hall School
Private day and boarding school in Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, England From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Fyling Hall is a private,[1] co-educational day and boarding school[2] 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.[3] The school is centred on a Georgian country house that dates from 1819 and is situated in 45 acres (180,000 m2) of wooded hillside within the North York Moors National Park.
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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.[4]
School motto
The school motto is 'The days that make us happy make us wise'.[5]
Sports
Fyling Hall School offers a wide variety of sports for pupils.[6]
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'.[citation needed]
Notable former pupils
Notable former teachers
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External links
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