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Looking from East Pier, at the mouth of the River Esk Estuary, towards East Cliff the location of the ruins of Whitby Abbey. In Whitby, North Yorkshire.
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 world. In 664 it was the setting for the Synod of Whitby, a landmark in the history of the church in England. Archaeological investigation has shed much light on this lost settlement. The headland is now dominated by the shell of the 13th-century church of the Benedictine abbey founded after the Norman Conquest. After the Suppression of the Monasteries the Cholmley family converted the abbot’s lodging into a grand private residence.
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Looking from East Pier, at the mouth of the River Esk Estuary, towards East Cliff the location of the ruins of Whitby Abbey. In Whitby, North Yorkshire.
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 world. In 664 it was the setting for the Synod of Whitby, a landmark in the history of the church in England. Archaeological investigation has shed much light on this lost settlement. The headland is now dominated by the shell of the 13th-century church of the Benedictine abbey founded after the Norman Conquest. After the Suppression of the Monasteries the Cholmley family converted the abbot’s lodging into a grand private residence.