Enjoy Whitby’s famous fish and chips, spend the day on the sandy beach, search for jet and fossils along the coastline or visit the Captain Cook Museum and Pannett Park Museum.

One thing we constantly hear at The Whitby Guide is that Whitby is a place to seek solace, to forget the troubles of the world, and to escape to a mythical age of explorers, smugglers, and …

As a post-mediaeval structure lying adjacent to Whitby Harbour (Figure 3 and Figure 4), which has a rich history of shipbuilding (Barker 2011; Jones 1982), Wynd Cottage is perhaps a prime …

This building served as the Whitby Public Library from 1913-1973. It is one of many public libraries across North America which were built with funds from The Carnegie Foundation, …

Whitby Abbey History and Archaeology ating past for more than 2000 years. Archaeologists discovered Iron Age houses at the cliff edge in the early 2000s but until the foundation of a …

And it is hoped that in this way the “Handbook of Ancient Whitby and its Abbey” may be found either useful or of interest to many among the visitors to Whitby as well as to the inhabitants.

The Port Whitby Intensification Area is intended to implement the requirements of the Durham Regional Official Plan for a Waterfront Place by providing for a range of residential, …