Giggleswick School: 360 Virtual Tour, 2026 Update

Giggleswick School is an independent day and boarding school for ages 2 to 18 in Giggleswick, near Settle in the Yorkshire Dales, founded in 1512. We have worked with the school for several years. We first photographed the campus from the ground and the air and built a tour around its illustrated campus map, and since then the tour has grown with the school, with new scenes added as facilities have opened and changed.

For 2026 we have rebuilt the whole tour with a new interface, as one of our bespoke 360 virtual tours. It now covers 34 spaces in seven areas, from the Prep School to the boarding houses, with three ways to explore, a guided tour, the school’s own descriptions of every space and a full set of accessibility settings. It is designed with a strong red, bold condensed headings and a colour for each area. Below we walk through each feature and why it is there.

A welcome over the Dales

The tour opens over a drone view of the school with its name, founding date, location and age range, and one line on what there is to see. Families can explore the campus map, fly over from above or take the guided tour, or start with one of seven areas: the Prep School, Academic, the Sixth Form, Arts and music, Sport and outdoors, Boarding and houses, and School life, each showing how many spaces it holds.

Three ways to explore

A switch at the top moves between the 360 view, the map and the view from above, so families can change how they look round at any time.

The map is the school’s illustrated campus map by Stephen Waterhouse, with a numbered pin on every space in the colour of its area. Filters show one area at a time, and the map zooms so the pins are easy to tap.

“From above” is a drone 360 over the campus with the same pins, so the buildings can be seen in their real setting below the hills.

Every space, in the school’s own words

Each space has a panel naming its area and its place in it, with previous and next buttons and a small map showing where it is. “About” opens the school’s own description, which can be read aloud. The Chapel, for example, built to commemorate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee and opened in 1901, is still one of the most impressive chapels we have photographed.

“Spaces” lists all 34 with a photo, grouped by area, with a search box, filters and a count of how many have been visited.

A guided tour

For families who would rather sit back, the guided tour moves through the school on its own, turning slowly in each space and moving on every few seconds. It can take in the whole school, 34 spaces in about eight minutes, or a single area, and can be paused, skipped or stopped at any point.

Accessible by design

Accessibility options are on the welcome screen and in the header: larger text, high contrast, easy-read text, larger markers, reduced motion and read aloud, along with a text list of every space and keyboard controls for moving round, zooming and opening each panel.

Visit and find us

The tour ends where an enquiry starts. “Visit and find us” shows the school on a map with its address, phone number and admissions email, and links to arrange a visit, see open days, find bus routes and get directions. Any view can also be shared with a link.

Designed for a phone

On a small screen the welcome stacks, the header becomes a row of icons with the three views beneath, the map fills the screen with a row of spaces along the bottom, and the space panel and lists sit over the view. The 360 can also be moved by turning the phone.

Self hosted, with no platform fee

Like the original, the new tour is a self-contained website with no annual hosting or platform fee, which makes it straightforward to keep adding to as the school changes. If you would like something similar for your school, take a look at our school virtual tours or get in touch.

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