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The Whitby Gazette was founded on 6 July 1854 by Ralph Horne, a local printer, bookseller, stationer, bookbinder, paperhanger and shipowner, who was also a member of the Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society.
The church is noted for its interior woodwork, crafted by men who worked in the shipyards at Whitby noted for turning out the ships used by Captain Cook on his explorations looking for Terra Australis. The church was the second oldest Anglican church in the town of Whitby, with more churches and chapels being built after St Ninian's.
The Church of Saint Mary is an Anglican parish church serving the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire England. [2] It was founded around 1110, although its interior dates chiefly from the late 18th century. The church was designated a Grade I listed building on 23 February 1954. [3]
He moved to Whitby, and became a fisherman and a lifeboatman. Freeman was the only survivor of the Whitby Lifeboat disaster of 9 February 1861, during which a great storm wrecked more than 200 ships on the east coast. The Whitby lifeboat crew launched five times to rescue stricken vessels, but on their sixth launch, tragedy struck.
Whitby is a town in Durham Region in Ontario, Canada.Whitby is located in Southern Ontario 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) east of Ajax and 8 kilometres (5.0 mi) west of Oshawa, on the north shore of Lake Ontario and is home to the headquarters of Durham Region.
Whitby is a seaside town, ... In the 2001 UK census of the total number of 5,973 homes 2,034 were rented and 3,939 were owner occupied. [159]
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 2016.. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence:
Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. [1] The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire , England, a centre of the medieval Northumbrian kingdom .