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Whitby Abbey
12.28km from Yorkshire Coast
The ruins of Whitby Abbey are among the most celebrated sights of North Yorkshire. The first monastery here, founded in about 657, became one of the most important religious centres in the Anglo-Saxon worldSince that time, the ruins of the abbey have continued to be used by sailors as a landmark at the headland. Since the 20th century, the substantial ruins of the church have been declared a Grade I Listed building and are in the care of English Heritage; the site museum is housed in Cholmley Ho
Captain Cook Memorial Museum
12.29km from Yorkshire Coast
The handsome 17th century house in Grape Lane is where the young James Cook came to serve his apprenticeship in the year 1746. It now houses a superb collection of original exhibits about Yorkshire’s most famous son. Original paintings, maps and manuscripts, ship models and Pacific artifacts tell the story of the Voyages.
Church of St Mary
12.42km from Yorkshire Coast
St Mary’s Church Leake is a beautiful grade 1 listed church in the shelter of the North Yorkshire Moors. It is a place of calm next to the busy A19 as it connects York to Teesside. The church is open daily as a place of stillness and prayer. The chapel stands close to the site of the battle of Towton of 1461, which was part of the Wars of the Roses. In the 1930s it was saved from neglect by a local group of ramblers, and is known locally as the Ramblers' Church
Pannett Park
12.54km from Yorkshire Coast
Pannett Park is a haven of peace and tranquility close to the centre of Whitby in North Yorkshire.This beautifully maintained park which has stunning views offers a state of the art children’s play area and for those visitors who have horticultural interests, a wide variety of planting schemes.
Whitby Museum
12.58km from Yorkshire Coast
Whitby Museum is an independent museum in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, run by Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society, a learned society and registered charity, established in 1823. It has a collection of over 80,000 artifacts, donated over 2 centuries is of local, national & international interest. As well as our permanent collection we have special exhibitions:- Our exhibition room has a changing program of stunning exhibitions.
Dalby Forest
12.61km from Yorkshire Coast
Dalby Forest is home to an abundance of internationally important wildlife species and is also a designated Dark Sky Discovery Site, where you can experience the magic of seeing the Milky Way with the naked eye. There are 70km of cycle trails snaking across 8,000 acres – uphill, down dale, through the forest and across the moorland plateau – with separate routes catering for children and families as well as experienced mountain-bikers. Dalby Forest is home to many species of wildlife such as bad
Whitby Beach
12.85km from Yorkshire Coast
Whitby Beach is a sandy and rocky beach backed by high cliffs. This beautiful beach stretches for miles and offers safe clean waters for swimming. spectacular cliffs steeped in geological history for the visiting explorers and clean sandy beaches for those who just let to relax in the sunshine and soak up the atmosphere. It was one of the beautiful beaches in this area and is familiar to families.
Scarborough North Bay Railway
13.05km from Yorkshire Coast
North Bay Railway is a miniature railway or minimum-gauge railway in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. It was built in 1931, to the gauge of 20 in , and runs for approximately 7⁄8 mile between Peasholm Park and Scalby Mills in the North Bay area of the town.One of Scarborough’s top seaside attractions, the locomotives, scenery and history of the railway all add up to make it a fantastic day.
Peasholm Park
13.33km from Yorkshire Coast
Peasholm Park is a beasutiful oriental themed park which has more to offer than just beautiful gardens. It has Mini waterfalls, wooden bridges crossing trickling streams and an abundence of wildlife make this the perfect location to enjoy a relaxing afternoon. The park is also home to the world famous Naval Warfare – a unique miniature sea battle.
North Yorkshire Moors Railway
14.27km from Yorkshire Coast
The North Yorkshire Moor Railway is one of the world’s greatest heritage railway experiences with thrills and family fun at its heart. Climb on-board a steam or heritage diesel train and experience 24 miles of Yorkshire’s amazing scenery at this must-see visitor attraction. Enjoy a fun filled day packed with amazing scenery and vintage charm on one of the greatest heritage railways in the world.
Scarborough Castle
14.28km from Yorkshire Coast
Rotunda Museum
14.78km from Yorkshire Coast
Rotunda Museum is one of the world’s first purpose-built museums and was built to a design suggested by William ‘Strata’ Smith. With over 5,500 fossils and 3,000 minerals, the strengths of the Scarborough collection are numerous type specimens, which were the first of their kind ever to be described, and one of the finest collections of Middle Jurassic fossil plants in the country.
Scarborough Art Gallery
14.79km from Yorkshire Coast
Scarborough Art Gallery is an art gallery in the English town of Scarborough. It is housed in a Grade II* Italianate villa in Scarborough’s Crescent, designed by Richard Hey Sharp. The gallery is administered by the Scarborough Museums Trust and is open to the public. Its permanent collection has been developed over the past seventy years through gifts, bequests and purchases.
Scarborough Beach
14.81km from Yorkshire Coast
Scarborough Beach is a beautiful sandy beach. It was an ideal place for surfing, sunbathing and swimming spend a relaxing hour or two at one of the many cafés or bars overlooking the ocean. There are many cafés, bars, restaurants and shops and a large range of accommodation from backpacker hostels, affordable family apartments to luxury hotels with ocean views.
Hole of Horcum
15.93km from Yorkshire Coast
The Hole of Horcum is a section of the valley of the Levisham Beck, upstream of Levisham and Lockton, in the Tabular Hills of the North York Moors National Park in northern England. The Hole was created by a process called spring-sapping, where water welling up from the hillside gradually undermined the slopes above, eating the rocks away grain by grain.
Scarborough Fair Collection & Vintage Transport Museum
20.99km from Yorkshire Coast
The Scarborough Fair Collection and Vintage Transport Museum located in Scarborough, North Yorkshire is one of the largest collections of its type in Europe, which hosts a magnificent working collection of Vintage Cars, Steam Engines, Vintage Fairground Rides and Mechanical Organs topped off with a 'Mighty' Wurlitzer Organ in our spacious ballroom.
Pickering Castle
24.87km from Yorkshire Coast
Pickering Castle was a motte-and-bailey castle built by the Normans as part of the suppression of Northern England. It was erected on a hilltop site overlooking Pickering Brook, on the main route between Helmsley and Scarborough on the coast. It was used by a succession of medieval Kings as a hunting lodge and holiday home. By the time of the Civil War, its military purpose had long been abandoned, and most of the castle was left to decay.
Beck Isle Museum
25.3km from Yorkshire Coast
Beck Isle Museum of Rural Life is a social history museum in Pickering, North Yorkshire, England. The museum features period business displays including the shops of a barber, blacksmith, chemist, cobbler, cooper, printer, gentleman's draper, dairy and hardware store. There is also a Victorian-era pub and parlour, and a historic costume gallery.
Filey Beach
25.31km from Yorkshire Coast
A beautiful sandy beach close by to the north, Filey Brigg has some good rock pools to explore and marks the end/start of the Cleveland Way Walk. The glorious 5-mile stretch of golden sand stretches from the rocky peninsula of Filey Brigg to the north down to Bempton, home to an RSPB reserve. It is one of the largest coastal developments of this kind in the UK and the first homes were completed in 2007.
Scampston Walled Garden
28.47km from Yorkshire Coast
Scampston Hall is one of the finest regency country houses in North Yorkshire and contains many fine works of art, furniture, and porcelain. The hall features in two storeys of stuccoed orange-red brick with a slate roof and stuccoed brick chimney stacks. The frontage has seven bays, the central three of which are bowed. Its Walled Garden has an exciting and unashamedly modern feel to and complements the adjacent 18th-century 'Capability' Brown parkland.
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Yorkshire Coast
Peakside, Ravenscar, Scarborough YO13 0NE, UK
The Yorkshire Coast is a world-famous stretch of coastline that runs from the Tees estuary to the Humber estuary on the east coast of England. The cliffs at Boulby are the highest on the east coast of England rising to 660 feet above the sea level. The North York Moors National Park extends up to the coastline and traverses 26 miles of the coast between Boulby and Cloughton, taking in the historic fishing villages of Staithes, Runswick Bay and Robin Hood's Bay.