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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 House from the Abbey site. Cholmley House or Whitby Hall is a banqueting house sited next to the ruins of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, England.It was built in 1672 by Sir Hugh Cholmeley, whose family had acquired the Abbey ruins and the land around them after its dissolution in 1539 – from then until 1672, the family had lived in what had been the Abbey's gatehouse and guest lodgings.
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 .
The brothers allowed their mother to continue to live in the house. After the deaths of his mother and brother, John Walker moved into the house by 1755. The house remained in the family until the mid 19th century and then was used by turns as a hospital and as a private residence until rescued in 1986 to become the Captain Cook Memorial Museum.
A summer house was also built on the grounds, according to legend on the spot of a hermitage which William de Percy established in 1150. [4] In 1858 Duleep Singh, the last Maharajah of the Punjab, took a lease on Mulgrave Castle. [17] As of 2010, the property is held by Constantine Phipps, 5th Marquess of Normanby.
Rudby Hall, Hutton Rudby, Skutterskelfe, North Yorkshire is a 17,377 sq ft (1,614.4 m 2) country house dating from 1838. Its origins are older but the present building was built for the 10th Viscount Falkland and his wife by the architect Anthony Salvin. The house is Grade II* listed.
David Duggleby Auctioneers & Valuers was established in 1996 in Scarborough by David and Jane Duggleby. [8] [9] Under William Duggleby, the auction house extended its activities online using the Saleroom and more recently DD live to reach an international audience.
The village is 1-mile (1.6 km) upriver from Ruswarp at the site of the Medieval bridge from which it takes its name, [2] [3] and 2 miles (3.2 km) south of Whitby. [4] The bridge was known as Sleights Bridge, and was replaced as the main road bridge by one further upstream in 1937. [5] A great flood in July 1930 swept away the old road bridge. [6]