Whitby, on foot
A fifteen-minute town with a thousand-year history
Bartley House sits on the West Cliff, five minutes from the beach and a walking distance from everything else.
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10 min walk
Whitby Abbey
The Gothic ruin on the headland that inspired Stoker's Dracula. Climb the 199 Steps from the harbour, lose half a morning, eat a long lunch on the way back.
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5 min walk
The 199 Steps
From the swing bridge in the harbour up to St Mary's Church and the Abbey beyond. Pause on the coffin rests, breathe out, count if you must.
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5 min walk
West Cliff Beach
A long, flat strand of sand below the West Cliff, with traditional beach huts, the whale jawbone arch on the cliff top, and good rock pools at low tide.
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8 min walk
Whitby Harbour
The working heart of the town. Watch the boats come in, eat what they brought back, and take a sunset trip out past the lighthouses if the swell allows.
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Photo aude / CC BY-SA 3.0 10 min walk
Captain Cook Memorial Museum
The 17th-century house where James Cook lived as an apprentice. Worth an hour for the maps, journals and the smaller stories that don't make it into the big histories.
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5 min walk
Whitby fish and chips
It's the reason half of Whitby is here. The Magpie is the famous one, but the locals will tell you about Trenchers, Quayside and a couple of others worth the walk.