Whitby is famous for?
Whitby (St Hilda's) Abbey, Dracula, Bram Stoker, Captain Cook, Whitby Goths, Whitby Regatta, Whitby Whaling, Fishing, St Mary's Church, Whitby Jet, Whitby Witches, Whitby Town, The Whitby Seagull, 199 Steps, Harbour, Whitby Piers, Shipping Trades, Alum Production, B&Bs, The East Cliff, Captain William Scoresby, Fisherman's Cottages, Whitby's Yards, Steps and cobbled streets, Fish and Chips, The Endeavour, Ghost Walks, Sea Food, Seaside, The West Cliff, Whitby Folk Festival, Caedmon, Frank Sutcliffe, Whitby Kippers, Lobster, Crabs and Scampi, Synod of A.D. 664, Australian 'First Fleet' supply vessels,
Do you know any other things Whitby is famous for? Let us know and we'll add it to the list, see here!
Discover Whitby's street names and their history here
Break the ice, Jury, Binge drinking, Incredible Hulk, Down the hatch, ...discover these and many more well known phrases from our maritime past here
Find out about the building styles and architecture found in the buildings of Whitby here.
Whitby in times gone by, ads from the past here
Lewis Carroll (English: b.27th Jan 1832 - d.14 Jan 1898 aged 65, Writer, poet, mathmatician, anglican clergyman, photographer, logician. a.k.a Charles Lutwidge Dodgson )
Dracula - see bram stoker below
Captain James Cook (English: b.7th Nov 1728 - d.14th Feb 1779 aged 50, explorer, navigator, cartographer)
Charles Dickens (English: b.7th feb 1812 - d.9th June 1870 aged 58, Novelist)
Henry Freeman (English: b.29th Apr 1835 - d.13th Dec 1904 aged 69, fisherman, lifeboatman)
John Atkinson Grimshaw (English: b.6th Sep 1836 - d.13th Oct 1893 aged 57, painter, clerk)
St Hilda (English: d614 - d680 aged ?, christian saint, abbess of monestery of Whitby)
Lord Frederic Leighton (English: b3rd Dec 1830 - d.25th Jan 1896 aged 65, painter, sculpter)
William Scoresby "senior" (English: b.3rd May 1760 - d.28th Apr 1829 aged 68)
William "Strata" Smith (English: b.Mar 23rd 1769 - d.Aug 28th 1839 aged 70, geologist)
Bram Stoker (Irish: writer of Dracula, practitioner of physiognomy, )
Frank Meadow Sutcliffe (English: b.1853 - d.1941, photographer)
J.W.M Turner (English: 23rd April 1775 - d.19th Dec 1851 aged 76, painter)
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