[1] The school is sited on a 33 acre verdant campus on the edge of Henley, incorporating a large Victorian manor house and two of its associated cottages.

There are extensive playing fields, as well as areas of grass, trees and woodland.

Gillotts was established as a girls' boarding school in parkland on the fringe of Henley-on-Thames in 1950, under founding headmistress Betty Barford.

Lotto multi-millionaire winner Gerry Cannings taught history at the school from 1976 until 1983.

[3] Gillotts school has three houses: Darwin, Pankhurst, and Orwell (named after Charles Darwin, Emmeline Pankhurst, and George Orwell).