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Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It is on the Yorkshire Coast at the mouth of the River Esk and has a maritime, mineral and tourist economy. From the Middle Ages , Whitby had significant herring and whaling fleets, [ 2 ] [ 3 ] and was where Captain Cook learned seamanship.
The YO postcode area, also known as the York postcode area, [2] is a group of 29 postcode districts in Yorkshire, England, within ten post towns.These cover most of Central and Eastern North Yorkshire (including York, Scarborough, Pickering, Selby, Thirsk, Malton, Filey and Whitby) and the northern part of the East Riding of Yorkshire (including Bridlington and Driffield).
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The River Esk is a river in North Yorkshire, England that empties into the North Sea at Whitby after a course of around 28 miles (45 km) through its valley of Eskdale.The river's name is derived from the Brythonic word "isca" meaning "water". [3]
Whitby is a railway station serving the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire, England.It is the southern terminus of the Esk Valley Line from Middlesbrough.The station is owned by Network Rail; its mainline services are operated by Northern Trains and its heritage services by the North Yorkshire Moors Railway.
The Port of Whitby is an ancient and historic seaport on the North Yorkshire coast of England. The port lies at the mouth of the River Esk , where it enters into the North Sea . A port has been in existence at Whitby since at least the 7th century, when it was used to bring in supplies for Whitby Abbey .
The piers of Whitby are four structures along the River Esk estuary in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. Whilst all the piers can be accessed by the general public, the piers were not built as seaside attractions – so-called pleasure piers like Redcar, Saltburn or Withernsea – but rather serving a civil purpose, such as ship loading and ...
The constituency name has had two separate periods of existence. 1918–1974: . A Scarborough and Whitby division of the North Riding of Yorkshire was created by the Representation of the People Act 1918 after the Boundary Commission of 1917 and first elected a Member of Parliament in the 1918 general election.