Fyling Hall is a

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situated near the small village of Fylingthorpe, near

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, south east of

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. 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 of wooded hillside within the

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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

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School motto

The school motto is 'The days that make us happy make us wise'.

Sports

Fyling Hall School offers a wide variety of sports for pupils.

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 pupils

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* Michael Dickinson * Ryan Gibson *

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Notable former teachers

* Alex Thomson

References

External links

School Website

Profile
on the

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