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Giggleswick was one of 27 schools listed in the Public Schools Yearbook of 1889, and has claims to be one of the oldest public schools, although claims vary depending on the criteria used.
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Paley was Born in Peterborough, England, and was educated at Giggleswick School, of which his father was headmaster, and at Christ's College, Cambridge.
He was born in Yorkshire, and educated at Giggleswick School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
After receiving his early education at Giggleswick School, of which his father was head-master, he went to Trinity College, Cambridge.
This led to Giggleswick, important because it was here that citizens had to go to attend the parish church.
At 13, he won a scholarship to Giggleswick School, Yorkshire, where his English teacher was Russell Harty.
He was born in Lytham St Annes, Lancashire, England and educated at Giggleswick School.
Harty had strong connections with the village of Giggleswick in North Yorkshire: before beginning his TV career he worked as an English teacher at Giggleswick School, where one of his pupils was Richard Whiteley, the future TV presenter and host of Countdown.
Following his death in 1988 ( from Hepatitis B ) in a Leeds hospital aged 53, he was buried in the churchyard of St Alkelda, Giggleswick.
His father was a lawyer and he attended Giggleswick School and Baylor University, Texas, and then at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.
A more independent Governing Body was established in 1874 in a successful bid to maintain Sedbergh's independence ( amalgamation with Giggleswick had been suggested ) and the first meeting took place in The Bull Inn in Sedbergh in December.
Much of his career was devoted to the architecture of education and he worked extensively for various schools, notably Giggleswick and his own alma mater Brighton College.
Giggleswick School was founded on half an acre of land leased by the Prior and Convent of Durham, to James Carr the chantry priest at the Parish Church of St Alkelda, to enclose and build, at his own expense, one ' Gramar Scole '.
Richard Whiteley of Channel 4's Countdown was a pupil at Giggleswick School.
The operatic soprano, Sarah Fox, was born in the village and attended Giggleswick School.
Professor Sir Nevill Francis Mott, who won the Nobel prize in physics in 1977, was born in Leeds, and brought up in Giggleswick.
An episode of the radio comedy The Shuttleworths was set in Giggleswick.
After education at Giggleswick School and Manchester Grammar School, where he was academically outstanding, he did not go to a university, but went into his father's business, where he worked for seventeen years.
Educated at Giggleswick School and Manchester University, he was commissioned in the East Lancashire Regiment in August 1914 ; served two years in France.
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To the west of the town is Giggleswick School, one of the principal public schools in the North of England, founded in 1512.
Giggleswick is one of only 18 schools to possess a Royal Marine cadet force, which became affiliated with HMS Bulwark in the Autumn of 2004.
The town is served by Giggleswick railway station which provides services to Leeds in one direction and Lancaster and Morecambe in the other.
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A monument is also to be found in St Akelda's church in Giggleswick, near his birthplace in Settle.
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The crag is opposite Settle Golf Club on the B6480, North of Giggleswick.
Comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson used Giggleswick as their emblem of a travelling actor's date with obscurity in Hancock's Half Hour, The Train Journey episode, broadcast on 23 October 1959.
* Archive with lots of info on Giggleswick
* Walk book on history of Giggleswick
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* Giggleswick School is founded by Rev James Carr in England.
Historically within the West Riding of Yorkshire, it is served by the Settle railway station, which is located near the town centre, and Giggleswick railway station which is a mile away.
The " little " North Western Railway reached in 1847 and in 1849 the railway company constructed Station Road from Giggleswick to Settle.
In 2008, three years after Whiteley's death, Giggleswick School announced its plans to raise £ 1. 3m to build a Theatre in his honour.
* The £ 8. 5m Settle & Giggleswick Bypass opened in December 1988.
On the other side of the divide rises the low summit of Smearsett Scar along with its subsidiaries, Pot Scar and Giggleswick Scar ; from here the land falls away to the River Ribble at Settle.
* Giggleswick School-Geoffrey P. Boult
On leaving university, Harty became an English and drama teacher in Giggleswick, North Yorkshire.
Harty subsequently lived in the heart of Giggleswick village.
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When they were closer and he saw that one was a woman, he was more puzzled than ever.
Morgan hesitated, thinking that if this was a trick, it was a good one.
There was no one but me.
The pony herd was the one flaw in our defense ; ;
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
He grabbed her by the shoulders and went down on one knee, taking her weight so that some of the wind was driven out of him.
There was only one place where Jake Carwood's description had gone badly awry: the peace and quiet.
The town was about what Wilson expected: one main street with its rows of false-fronted buildings, a water tower, a few warehouses, a single hotel ; ;
only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.
In the mornings, I was informed, fluorescent tubes, similar to the one above the counter, illuminated the entire hall.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
The one thing they had in common was their hatred.
When they reached their neighbor's house, Pamela said a few polite words to Grace and kissed Melissa lightly on the forehead, the impulse prompted by a stray thought -- of the type to which she was frequently subject these days -- that they might never see one another again.
There was only one place where the mountain might receive her -- that unnamed, unnameable pool harbored in its secret bosom.
But she was caught in it, and she faced the terrible possibility that, if it were a dream, it was one from which she might never awaken.
That was another one of those traps.
At one and the same time, she was within it but still searching for the drawbridge that would give her entry.
All the doors were open at this hour except one, and it was toward this that Stevens made his way with Russ close at his shoulder.
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