The Maryland Study Centre at Kiplin Hall, North Yorkshire,UK

The Maryland Study Centre at Kiplin Hall & Gardens in North Yorkshire, UK is a unique residential facility for small group study tours, professional workshops, and studios. Located on an ancestral estate of the Calverts, the historic progenitors of Maryland colony, it was established in 1986 by the Historic Preservation Program (HISP) in the University of Maryland's School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation.  Over the years, the talents and resources of HISP, its students and faculty developed the Study Centre into a facility available for use by an ever-broadening array of Maryland and US-base higher and secondary education institutions and professional groups.  Along the way, the Study Centre has benefited from the generous support of the University of Maryland, College Park, the State of Maryland, the Maryland Society for History and Culture, the Maryland Foundation for Kiplin Hall, the Society of the Ark and the Dove, and many individual donors.

The Maryland Study Centre  features:

• Multipurpose space for classes, studio
• Study with library, tv, and dvd
• Dining room
• Full kitchen
• Three bedrooms, each with separate bathrooms (4 beds each).
• Loft with eight beds, 2 bathrooms
• Bedsit with bathroom
• Washer/dryer
• Attached two-room apartment with bathroom, kitchen, sitting area, and washer/dryer
• Broadband wifi

For information about renting the Study Centre for your program, contact Joe Scholten.

Recent Programming at Kiplin Hall

• “My Ideal Workshop” – Colin Phillips, Director, Maryland Language Science Center
• Anne Arundel County PS Performing and Visual Arts Program collaboration with Georgian Theatre Royal Youth Program
• Washington College Kiplin Program: Hiking the Liberal Arts
• UMD Historic Preservation Landscape Architecture program 
• Edwin Remsberg Photography Workshop (next edition in the works)
• Maryland 4H Summer Program

Nearby Sites

• Easby Abbey
• Georgian Theatre Royal
• Richmond Castle
• James Herriot museum
• Durham Cathedral
• Historic York - “Capital of the North”
• Whitby Abbey (Dracula’s castle)
• Yorkshire Dales & Lakes District
• North York Moors (Wutherings Heights)
• Castle Howard (Brideshead site)
• Glasgow, Edinburgh (2.5 hours by train)
• London (3 hours by train)

To learn more about the history of Kiplin Hall, read the article in Terp Magazine and then watch the MPT documentary.

Can't make the trip to Kiplin? Check out these sites on this side of the Pond:

• Historic St. Mary's City (capital of the Calvert's Maryland Colony)
• Riversdale House Museum (plantation home of Charles Benedict Calvert, who drove the establishment of Maryland Agricultural College, the forerunner of UMCP)