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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 ...
Whitby is a seaside town, port ... point since at least medieval times and several bridges have spanned the river. The current bridge, built in 1908, is a swing ...
Tide tables, sometimes called tide charts, are used for tidal prediction and show the daily times and levels of high and low tides, usually for a particular location. [1] Tide heights at intermediate times (between high and low water) can be approximated by using the rule of twelfths or more accurately calculated by using a published tidal ...
The village was once served by Robin Hood's Bay railway station [20] on the Scarborough and Whitby Railway line which opened in 1885 and closed in 1965. The track of the old railway is now a footpath and cycleway. The nearest railway station is in Whitby. The village connects to the A171 allowing access to Whitby and Scarborough.
In Summer 2022, the Coastliner Express route X43 was re-introduced, but it was modified to run between York and Whitby via Scarborough, reducing travel time from York to Scarborough from 2 hours to 90 minutes. [22] [23] As with the pre-2020 timetable, the route only runs during the summer season, and makes one return journey a day. In 2023, the ...
The first ships left Whitby in 1752, [75] whereas the last whaling ship set sail from Whitby for Greenland (where the whaling seas were to be found) in 1837. [76] During this time, Whitby is said to have dispatched over 25,000 seals and 2,761 whales. [77] Whitby is now one of two ports along the Yorkshire coast to have a seafood processing ...
The River Esk has several notable and listed bridges on its stretch. From upstream to downstream they are; Beggars Bridge at Glaisdale (a high-arched packhorse bridge built in the 17th century), [21] [22] the Bowstring road bridge at Ruswarp, Larpool Viaduct between Ruswarp and Whitby, [23] the A171 road bridge and the swing bridge in Whitby ...
A replacement swing bridge was commissioned by Whitby Urban District Council. It was designed by J. Mitchell Moncrieff, [ 2 ] [ 7 ] later President of the Institution of Structural Engineers . As work progressed on the west side of the river bank to set a pivot for the bridge to swing, a seam of coal 10 inches (250 mm) thick was struck at 26 ...