Fyling Hall is a private, 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 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 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 1819 and is grade II listed. Boarding Houses There are four boarding houses at Fyling Hall: Woodside: Sixth Form Girls Ramsdale: Sixth Form Boys Main: Junior and Senior Girls Mulgrave: Junior and Senior Boys 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, horse riding and rounders. 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 Eliza Carthy Michael Dickinson Ryan Gibson Philip Hayton Jamie Noon Notable former teachers Alex Thomson References External links School Website Profile on the ISC website Educational institutions established in 1923 Private schools in North Yorkshire Boarding schools in North Yorkshire 1923 establishments in England Member schools of the Independent Schools Association (UK)