If there's one essential stop on the North Yorkshire coast it's WHITBY , whose historical associations, atmospheric ruins, fishing harbour and intrinsic charm make it many people's favourite northern resort. The seventh-century abbey here made Whitby one of the key foundations of the early Christian period, and a centre of great learning, though little interfered with the fishing community that scraped together a living on the harbour banks of the River Esk below. For a thousand years, the local herring boats landed their catch until the great whaling boom of the eighteenth century transformed … more »
A beautiful coastal city located in North Yorkshire, United Kingdom,... more »
Having a unique old world charm, for centuries Whitby has provided a... more »
Whitby is a historic town in North Yorkshire on the north-east coast... more »
Whitby is a small coastal Yorkshire town that hosts a Gothic Weekend twice a year. Picturesque... more »