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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.
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 .
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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 .
Captain Cook Memorial Museum is a history museum in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. The museum building, Walker's House, belonged to Captain John Walker, to whom James Cook was apprenticed in 1746. Having lodged there as an apprentice, Cook returned to visit in the winter of 1771–72 after his first voyage.
The Whitby Pavilion is a theatre and events venue in Whitby, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed between 1876 and 1879, on the initiative of George Elliott . It was designed as a theatre, with a saloon and surrounded by pleasure grounds. [ 1 ]
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.