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Ooh, we do like to be beside the seaside.
Pick and choose from these things to do
in Scarborough, Whitby and Filey.
Enjoy a Knickerbocker Glory in the Harbour
Bar on Scarborough's seafront. With its neon-edged ice cream
cones, mirror-lined walls, high stools for sitting at the long counter,
and extravagant ice creams in fancy glass vases, this milk bar is
almost unaltered since it opened in 1945
Walk to the end of Filey Brigg - without
getting caught out by the tide... Then take a look in the Filey
Lifeboat Station near the amuseument arcades
read Life
on a Filey Coble - and then rescued by the Filey
Lifeboat!
If you can cope with the fishy smell, visit the fish market on
Scarborough's fish pier (opposite the
Harbour Bar) where you can buy fresh
fish straight out of the North Sea. Or if you can't stand the smell
but still can't resist a crabstick, buy a tub of them from the fish
stalls nearby
Captain
Cook and the Endeavour
in Whitby have brought a lot of tourist trade to Whitby in recent
years more
Climb Whitby's 199 steps,
counting them all the way just to make sure there are 199.
At the top of the 199 steps, gaze out to sea Captain Cook style
On your way back down Whitby's 199 steps and into town,
stop off at the kipper smokery and peer
in the windows of the various Whitby Jet shops
Take an open top bus around Marine
Drive in Scarborough, from North Bay
to South Bay, or vice versa
At North Bay in Scarborough, sail around
Peasholm Park on a giant swan, get
competitive with crazy golf, travel
on the miniature steam
railway to the Sea Life Centre,
have some candyfloss or an ice cream, and cool off with a dip in
the pool at Atlantis
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| Surfers in Scarborough |
At Scarborough's South
Bay, hire a chalet for a few days, play in the rockpools,
listen to a concert while sitting in a deckchair in the Spa
Sun Court, and travel up the perpendicular railway to the
Esplanade where you can wander in the
Italian Gardens
see Scarborough's South
Bay in 360º
Surfing
is a favourite pastime in Scarborough
and Cayton Bay
Visit Whitby
Abbey. Its history dates back to AD 675 when St Hilda founded
a monastery there. The present structure dates from 1078 and is
now in the care of English Heritage.
Drop into St
Mary's church at the top of Whitby's 199 steps. The church
has a Norman tower and an 18th century interior. The maritime style
interior was the work of local shipwrights who fitted the church.
It has small cabin-like box pews, galleries above, and a three storey
pulpit.
Bram Stoker based much of Dracula on the town while staying
in Whitby in 1890, and it is said that Dracula
is buried in Whitby. In the graveyard of St Mary's is an intriguing
iron grave. Perhaps it's Dracula's?...
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| The Whalebone, Whitby |
Walk along the clifftop from
Robin Hoods Bay to Ravenscar
on the Cleveland Way, looking out for
smugglers caves in the cliff sides. Occasional drops at Boggle
Hole and Stoupe Beck take you
down to sea level, so stop off for a paddle
Have fish and chips on Whitby
pier and gaze up at the whalebone on
the West Cliff
North and East Yorkshire have some
of the best Jurassic and Cretaceous
geology in the world, and erosion of the cliffs means an
fossils are plentiful more
See the East coast from the sea by taking a tour on one of the
cruise ships which sail from the harbour in Scarborough - the Regal
Lady, the Coronia and the ex-pirate ship Hispaniola...
Or ride on the old lifeboat which sails from the pier in Whitby
| Fossils |
North and East Yorkshire have some of
the best Jurassic and Cretaceous geology in the world, and
erosion of the cliffs means an fossils are plentiful
- evidence for the changing environment of tropical seas,
rivers and swamps in this region’s ancient past.
Woodend Museum and Art Gallery in Scarborough,
and Whitby Museum have a great collection of Jurassic geology
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Museum
Scarborough
Museums and Gallery
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