Fylingthorpe is a village in the

civil parish In England, a civil parish is a type of Parish (administrative division), administrative parish used for Local government in England, local government. It is a territorial designation which is the lowest tier of local government below district ...

Fylingdales Fylingdales is a civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire, England situated south of Whitby, within the North York Moors National Park. It contains the villages of Robin Hood's Bay and Fylingthorpe and Fyling Hall School. ...

in the

Borough of Scarborough The Borough of Scarborough () is a non-metropolitan district and borough of North Yorkshire, England. In addition to the town of Scarborough, it covers a large stretch of the coast of Yorkshire, including Whitby and Filey. It borders Red ...

North Yorkshire North Yorkshire is the largest ceremonial county (lieutenancy area) in England, covering an area of . Around 40% of the county is covered by national parks, including most of the Yorkshire Dales and the North York Moors. It is one of four cou ...

, England.

Geography

Fylingthorpe is located about inland from the coast of the North Sea, and about from

Robin Hood's Bay Robin Hood's Bay is a small Yorkshire coast fishery, fishing village and a bay located in the North York Moors National Park, south of Whitby and north of Scarborough, North Yorkshire, Scarborough on the coast of North Yorkshire, England. Ba ...

, the larger of the two settlements within Fylingdales Parish, between and above sea level. The country rises sharply west of the village itself towards

Fyling Hall Fyling Hall is an Independent school (UK), independent, co-educational day and boarding school situated near the small village of Fylingthorpe, near Robin Hood's Bay, south east of Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. Founded in 1923 by Mab Bradle ...

school by about 100 m in 1 km. The underlying geology is boulder clay.

History

Fylingthorpe, then an agglomeration-type settlement, is reported in the

Domesday Book Domesday Book () – the Middle English spelling of "Doomsday Book" – is a manuscript record of the "Great Survey" of much of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 by order of King William I, known as William the Conqueror. The manusc ...

of 1086 as "waste" and non-populated. It came under the jurisdiction of

William de Percy William I (Willame) de Percy (d.1096/9), 1st feudal baron of Topcliffe in North Yorkshire,Sanders, I.J., English Baronies, Oxford, 1960, p.148 known as ''Willame als gernons'' (meaning "with whiskers"), was a French nobleman who arrived in England ...

who between 1091 and 1096 granted it to

Whitby Abbey Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, England, a centre of the medieval Northumbrian ...

. The village was originally only known as ''Thorpe'' and in the 13th century as ''Prestethorpe''. The Fawside family, who originated in Scotland and accompanied King

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, had Thorpe Hall mansion built in 1680. They later changed their name into Farsyde and, as lords of Fylingdales Manor, were involved in various conflicts of political, religious, and military nature. They were also involved in shipping and smuggling. railway station on the now defunct

Scarborough and Whitby Railway The Scarborough & Whitby Railway was a railway line from Scarborough to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. The line followed a difficult but scenic route along the North Yorkshire coast. The line opened in 1885 and closed in 1965 as part of ...

served the nearby school from 1885 to 1965, but the village was nearer to the station at . In 1923, the boarding school of

was founded in a Georgian country house near the village. It is still in operation.

Notable buildings

Thorpe Hall, an Elizabethan mansion built by the Fawside family in 1680 and extended twice in the 19th century, now serves as bed and breakfast accommodation. The Georgian country house of Fyling Hall, built in 1810 and now the home of Fyling Hall School, replaced an earlier hall where in 1632 the politician Sir Hugh Cholmeley was born. St Stephen's Old Church north of the village, a

chapel of ease A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently. Often a chapel of ease is deliberately b ...

which contains memorials for shipwrecked sailors, was built in 1821 as a preaching church, replacing a predecessor. It is a Grade I listed building. The "Pigsty" is an architectural

folly In architecture, a folly is a building constructed primarily for decoration, but suggesting through its appearance some other purpose, or of such extravagant appearance that it transcends the range of usual garden buildings. Eighteenth-cent ...

south of Fyling Hall, built in the late 19th century as pig stables in a neoclassical style by John Barry, a shipowner and resident of the mansion, and is now rented out as holiday accommodation by the Landmark Trust.

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