36 Facts About Whitby

Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England.

Whitby grew significantly as a port as a result of the alum trade and by importing coal from the Durham coalfield to process it.

Whitby grew in size and wealth, extending its activities to include shipbuilding using local oak timber.

Whitby benefited from trade between the Newcastle coalfield and London, both by shipbuilding and supplying transport.

Whitby was bought by the Royal Navy 1768, refitted and renamed.

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Whitby developed as a spa town in Georgian times when three chalybeate springs were in demand for their medicinal and tonic qualities.

For 12 years from 1847, Robert Stephenson, son of George Stephenson, engineer to the Whitby and Pickering Railway, was the Conservative MP for the town promoted by Hudson as a fellow protectionist.

Whitby Abbey sustained considerable damage in the attack, which lasted ten minutes.

Since 1974 Whitby has been administered by Scarborough Borough Council, one of the seven district councils in North Yorkshire.

At the lowest level of governance Whitby has a town council which, for election and administrative purposes, is divided into six electoral wards represented by 19 councillors responsible for burial grounds, allotments, play areas and street lighting.

Bishop of Whitby is a suffragan bishop of the Church of England Diocese of York, in the Province of York.

Whitby is situated on the east coast of Yorkshire facing the North Sea in a deep valley at the mouth of the River Esk.

Whitby did so by casting a spell that turned them to stone and then threw them from the cliff tops.

Whitby Business Park is a 49-acre site located by the A171 road, 2 miles from the harbour on the southern outskirts of the town.

East coast has limited conventional energy generation capacity, but Whitby is the closest port to a proposed development on Dogger Bank, ideally placed to provide the offshore wind power industry with support vessel operations and logistics.

Whitby is on the River Esk and has a port used for shipping to Europe, especially Scandinavia, and it mainly handles grain, steel products, timber and potash cargo.

In 2007, the North Yorkshire Moors Railway began a summer service between Pickering and Whitby operated by steam locomotives, as an extension of their long-standing Pickering-Grosmont service.

Whitby is situated on the A171 road from Scarborough to Guisborough, which originally passed over the swing bridge.

Whitby is served by the Yorkshire Coastliner bus line, operating from Leeds, Tadcaster, York, Scarborough, Bridlington, Pickering and Malton, with connections beyond Yorkshire.

Nearest airport, about 45 miles from Whitby, is Teesside International Airport, which has a regular service from Amsterdam, Schiphol airport.

Whitby has a three-tier school system, primary, middle and Caedmon College, which was formed in 2014 from the merger of Caedmon School and Whitby Community College.

Whitby developed as an important bridging point of the River Esk and in 1351 permission was granted for tolls to be taken on the bridge for its maintenance.

Whitby Lighthouse, operated by Trinity House, is located outside the town, to the south-east, on Ling Hill.

Whitby became famous internationally as a great exponent of pictorial photography.

Whitby exhibited his work in Tokyo, Vienna, France, the US and Great Britain winning over 60 gold, silver and bronze medals.

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In 1931 Whitby Museum was built behind the gallery by the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society.

Whitby Gazette was founded in 1854 by Ralph Horne, a local printer.

Town has a strong literary tradition; it can even be said that the earliest English literature comes from Whitby as Cædmon, the first known Anglo Saxon poet was a monk at the order that used Whitby Abbey during the abbacy of St Hilda.

Part of Bram Stoker's novel Dracula was set in Whitby, incorporating pieces of local folklore, including the beaching of the Russian ship Dmitri.

In my time that curious railroad by the Whitby Moor was so much the more curious, that you were balanced against a counter-weight of water, and that you did it like Blondin.

Whitby was accompanied by Caroline Graves, the inspiration for The Woman in White.

Whitby reached a wide readership when her second novel, Between the Heather and the Northern Sea, was published in 1884.

Trilogy of young adult novels, The Whitby Witches, makes much of the town's setting and history, embellishing local traditions whilst incorporating them into the narrative.

Whitby has various sports facilities including the town cricket and football pitches and tennis courts.

Whitby Town FC, formed in 1892, is a semi-professional football club which plays in the Northern Premier League at the 3,200 capacity Turnbull Ground on Upgang Lane.

Whitby is twinned with a number of towns across the globe.