High Tor Guest House

7 Normanby Terrace, West Cliff, Whitby, North Yorkshire YO21 3ES Tel: 01947 602507

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Whitby is dominated by the cliff-top ruins of a beautiful 13th century Abbey. This quaint maritime town, with its old cobbled streets, picturesque houses and sandy blue flag beach, is set among fine stretches of coast with spectacular cliffs and bays.

199 steps lead you down from the Abbey to the old town where you find yourself in a shoppers’ paradise. With an array of unique shops offering local crafts, famous Whitby Jet jewellery, maritime memorabilia and antiques, you are sure to find that holiday treasure.

A selection of diverse attractions includes the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Victorian Jet Works, the Dracula Experience and Whitby Museum.

For food connoisseurs, Whitby has it all. Award winning seafood restaurants, continental delights, traditional sea-shanty inns preparing local produce and olde worlde English tea rooms serving freshly baked pastries and Yorkshire teas.

Whitby has something for everyone, it is also an ideal base for exploring the surrounding areas, the charming coastal villages like Robin Hoods Bay, Sandsend and Staithes. The largest expanse at Moorland in England, the North Yorkshire Moors, with its famous steam railway line. Visit Goathland, now famous as Heatbeat’s Aidensfield.