In Staithes
Staithes Town website is full of useful information and photographs.
Pubs - There are two pubs in the old part of the village, the Cod and Lobster on the harbour front and The Royal George on the High Street. A third pub, the Black Lion Hotel is closed at the moment. On top of the bank just above Bellebeck is the Captain Cook Inn which often has live entertainment. At Dalehouse, just over the main Whitby-Saltburn road is the Fox and Hounds which is particularly good for Sunday lunch and meals generally.
Restaurants. The most notable restaurant is The Endeavour which specialises in seafood. Others include the Cleveland Corner Cafe the Bistro Cafe the Seadrift Cafe.
Shops include the Post Office and General Store the Kessen Bowl Gift Shop the Gift Shop which sells everything.
General Websites covering the area
Yorkshirenet - Comprehensive website for tourist and non-tourist information for all of Yorkshire with sections for the Dales
Local Towns and Villages
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 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, which offers a cabinet of curiosities from geology to jet carving, birdlife to bygones and costumes to clocks.
For food connoisseurs, Whitby has it all. Award winning seafood restaurants, continental delights, traditional sea-shanty inns preparing locally cooked produce and olde worlde English tea rooms serving freshly baked pastries and Yorkshire teas. (Taken from Discover Yorkshire Coast)
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Scarborough, Britain’s first seaside resort, has been welcoming visitors for over 360 years and is still as popular as ever.
The safe, sandy, accredited beaches of the North and South Bays are broken by a rocky headland on which stands a reminder of the past - Scarborough's medieval castle.
The resort offers first class attractions such as the award winning Sea Life Marine Sanctuary, Atlantis Waterpark – home to two of the largest water slides in Europe, Kinderland children’s fun park, the Rotunda Museum and Scarborough Art Gallery.
The many festivals, including Seafest, Jazz, Bike week, Scarborough Fayre and the Cricket festival, provide you with all year round events.
By night you will be spoilt for choice with four fantastic theatres, each offering something different. One of the most famous is the Stephen Joseph Theatre, home of playwright Sir Alan Ayckbourn. Music lovers can visit the Spa complex, home of the only remaining seaside orchestra, or Peasholm Park, which offers open air concerts and a variety of family entertainments. (Taken from Discover Yorkshire Coast)
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Robin Hood's Bay - Park your car at the top of a very steep cliff and walk down a twisting, turning, cobbled street to the ocean. On either side of you a village clings to the cliffside, defying gravity. Robin's Hood Bay has operated as a village under various aliases. Nothing exists in fact to determine where its name really came from. Once known as Bay Town, Robin Hood's Town and Robbyn Huddes Bay-whatever it is called-it is still a charming spot, with every twist and turn of a street bringing into view another picture postcard scene.
Red pantiles decorate the roofs of stone cottages. A stream runs through a ravine in the middle of the village to the sea below. Shops, cafes, pubs and small cottages cling precariously to the sides of the cliff. The Laurel Inn has a bar carved from solid rock. (From Britain Express)
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