Whitby
About Whitby
Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is located at the mouth of the River Esk, where the North York Moors meet the Yorkshire Coast, and has a maritime, mineral and tourist economy. It is 47 miles (76 km) from York and 22 miles (35 km) from Middlesbrough.
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St Mary's Church in Whitby has put a sign on its door saying Dracula is a fictional character, because so many visitors turn up asking about him.
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More facts about Whitby
A Whitby tour guide, Harry Collett, got so sick of visitors asking about Dracula that he commissioned a headstone he could just point to.
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The Whitby Goth Weekend has run since the 90s, and in 2019 a rival event called Tomorrow's Ghosts was set up after the founder parted ways with a venue.
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There are 199 steps up to St Mary's Church in Whitby, mentioned in Dracula, and the plank benches beside them were originally pit stops for resting dead bodies, known as the dead men's benches.
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Ammonites found at Whitby are called the snake stones of Whitby, and people used to carve little heads onto them to make them look like snakes.
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William Scoresby Senior, a whaler and Arctic explorer from Whitby, is credited with inventing the crow's nest.
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The Texan explorer Lee Scoresby in Philip Pullman's Northern Lights is named after and inspired by William Scoresby of Whitby.
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St Hilda founded a monastery at Whitby and taught Caedmon, the first English poet we know the name of.
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A replica of the Endeavour, the ship James Cook sailed to Australia, is moving to Whitby, bought for £110,000 with £250,000 more to move it 39 miles.
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William Scoresby once allegedly caught a polar bear and brought it to Whitby, though nobody is completely sure that is true.
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