- Whitby Abbey There are two ways to approach the Abbey: from the car park to the south, or from Whitby town itself via 199 winding (and rather steep!) stone steps.
- The Strickland family handed the abbey ruins over to the Ministry of Works in 1920. Whitby Abbey has several claims to fame.
- Whitby Abbey, Whitby, Redcar And Cleveland, United Kingdom. 36,309 likes · 920 talking about this · 253,505 were here. Experience England's most iconic...
- For the next 400 years, Whitby Abbey was an important and successful monastery. until Henry VIII dissolved it in 1539.
- The ruins of a 7th Century Christian Monastery which later became a Benedictine Abbey overlooking the north sea and town of Whitby.
- There are ruined abbeys, and there are picturesque ruined abbeys. And then there's Whitby Abbey, dominating the skyline above the East Cliff like a great…
- Whitby’s Abbey was founded in 657 AD by the Saxon King of Northumbria, Oswy (Oswiu) as Streanshalh (Streonshalh).
- Best known as the setting for Bram Stoker's novel Dracula, the impressive ruins of Whitby Abbey were once the home of a Saxon saint.
- Whitby Abbey is a ruined monastery sited on Whitby's East Cliff in northern England. It was founded in 657 AD by St. Hilda.
- a site about the town of whitby north yorkshire, contains information on the life, interests, townfolk, lifboats, whitby abbey, fishing, accomodation.