Facilities
Classrooms – link to photos with captions
House – link to photos with captions
Grounds and Surrounding Area – link to photos with captions
Cliffe House has three classrooms in the old Coach House. Two rooms are used by residential groups and the third by day visit groups. All the classrooms are equipped with basic field study equipment, pencils, paper etc.
Cliffe House, where the residential groups stay is a late Victorian house that has been operating as a schools’ study centre since 1947. Over the years many changes have taken place and we are now operating as a field study centre, supporting the school curriculum particularly in the areas of geography, history, ecology and general environmental studies. The house itself continues to be, upgraded both internally and externally and is able to accept groups of up to 44 children in rooms of from 5 to 9 beds on two floors (boys and girls). There are also staff rooms, each with two single beds, on each floor.
The grounds have been developed to support and enhance the activities at the Centre and include woodland, ponds, a small stream, hedgerow, meadow areas, orienteering courses and various play areas. The Centre is also exceptionally well situated in terms of field study sites within easy reach, both by foot and by a short minibus journey. Sites available include semi natural and commercial woodland, streams and small rivers, farms, moorland, a quarry, a woollen mill, National Mining Museum and a number of settlements from tiny hamlets to small market towns. Click on the links above to view photographs.