Whitby Abbey. # 1
** We had one of those lucky days yesterday, we had decided to spend the day in Whitby about twelve miles North of Robin Hoods Bay. When we left RHB it was dry but cloudy but by the time we got to Whitby the skies had cleared and the Autumn light was perfect. We wandered around for about three hours in glorious sunshine and took a whole lot of photographs . By the time we had finished our lunch the sky had turned dark and rain was threatening but it was time to head back to Robin Hoods Bay
Anyway this is an image of Whitby Abbey that stands on a cliff above the town on the edge of North Sea. Seafarers from Whitby in the past used the Abbey as a aid to navigate back into harbour . In the background you can just see a sliver of the North Sea
The first Abbey was originally founded in 657AD by the Saxon King of Northumbria. Though the ruins you can see date back to the twelfth century when the Abbey was rebuilt. This grand monastery was destroyed in 1540 on orders from Henry VIII.
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula featured Count Dracula as a creature resembling a large dog which came ashore at the headland and runs up the 199 steps to the graveyard of St Mary's Church in the shadow of the Whitby Abbey ruins.
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Whitby Abbey. # 1
** We had one of those lucky days yesterday, we had decided to spend the day in Whitby about twelve miles North of Robin Hoods Bay. When we left RHB it was dry but cloudy but by the time we got to Whitby the skies had cleared and the Autumn light was perfect. We wandered around for about three hours in glorious sunshine and took a whole lot of photographs . By the time we had finished our lunch the sky had turned dark and rain was threatening but it was time to head back to Robin Hoods Bay
Anyway this is an image of Whitby Abbey that stands on a cliff above the town on the edge of North Sea. Seafarers from Whitby in the past used the Abbey as a aid to navigate back into harbour . In the background you can just see a sliver of the North Sea
The first Abbey was originally founded in 657AD by the Saxon King of Northumbria. Though the ruins you can see date back to the twelfth century when the Abbey was rebuilt. This grand monastery was destroyed in 1540 on orders from Henry VIII.
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula featured Count Dracula as a creature resembling a large dog which came ashore at the headland and runs up the 199 steps to the graveyard of St Mary's Church in the shadow of the Whitby Abbey ruins.
THANKS FOR YOUR VISIT TO MY STREAM.
I WOULD BE VERY GRATEFUL IF YOU COULD NOT FAVE A PHOTO
WITHOUT ALSO LEAVING A COMMENT .