Edgarley Manor
Junior Boys' House
Staff: Houseparents, Dan and Menna Close
Assistant houseparent, Sam Gouldby, liaison tutor, Richard Evans
Contacts: Tel: 01458 834611 Email: edgarley@millfieldprep.com
No of pupils: 33
Edgarley Manor is located in the hamlet of Edgarley, directly opposite the Prep School campus. Edgarley used to be a farm. It was almost certainly a Manor house as it still has the servants' bells in the hall and a cart cleaning area that is now a pond. The House opened in 1990 as a boys' house and was then a girls' house from 1992 to 1998, when it reverted to a boys' house again. Recently a new block was built to provide new dorms. Maximum capacity 33.
There is lots of outside space at Edgarley, with fields and a pond. Mallard ducks appear every spring to nest; their ducklings are reared in Edgarley's garden and feed out of the pupils' hands.
Dan and Menna Close have been Houseparents for 6 years. Dan is also Deputy Head of the Prep School, teaches history and is the first XV rugby coach. Menna is a sports teacher, coaching gymnastics, trampolining, netball and rounders. Prior to joining Millfield, Dan and Menna taught abroad at International schools in Singapore and Kuwait.
Outside school, Dan and Menna's interests include travel, triathlon, cycling and skiing. They have 2 children, one at the Prep School and one at the Senior School.
