Sandsend
Sandsend is a small fishing village, near to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the civil parish of Lythe. It is the birthplace of fishing magnate George Pyman.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village
- Description: village in Lythe, Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Sandsend, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Mulgrave Castle and Whitby Pavilion.
Mulgrave Castle
Ruins
Photo: Stephen Horncastle, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Mulgrave Castle refers to one of three structures on the same property in Lythe, near Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. One of these, known as the "old" or "ancient" castle, was by legend founded by Wada, a 6th-century ruler of Hälsingland. Mulgrave Castle is situated 1½ miles southwest of Sandsend.
Whitby Pavilion
Theater building
Photo: Peter Church, CC BY-SA 2.0.
The Whitby Pavilion is a theatre and events venue in Whitby, a town in North Yorkshire, in England. The building was constructed between 1876 and 1879, on the initiative of George Elliott. Whitby Pavilion is situated 2 miles east of Sandsend.
Whitby Museum
Museum
Whitby Museum is an independent museum in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, run by Whitby Literary and Philosophical Society, a learned society and registered charity, established in 1823. Whitby Museum is situated 2½ miles southeast of Sandsend.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sandsend Ness and Lythe.
Sandsend Ness
Locality
Photo: Scott Rimmer, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Sandsend Ness is an old alum quarrying site close to Whitby in North Yorkshire, England. Beneath extensive deposits of grey pyritic shale a thin band of sideritic mudstone is present at this site and there is a further 6 metres of almost non-bituminous shale beneath it.
Lythe
Village
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lythe is a small village and large civil parish, in North Yorkshire, England, situated near Whitby within the North York Moors National Park. The name of the village derives from Old Norse and means hill or slope.
Sandsend
- Category: locality
- Location: Lythe, Scarborough District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.50263° or 54° 30′ 10″ northLongitude
-0.67066° or 0° 40′ 14″ westElevation
46 feet (14 metres)United Nations Location Code
GB SDZOpen location code
9C6XG83H+3POpenStreetMap ID
node 31477248OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
2638556Wikidata ID
Q616918
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In Other Languages
From Basque to Polish—“Sandsend” goes by many names.
- Basque: “Sandsend”
- Dutch: “Sandsend”
- French: “Sandsend”
- Irish: “Sandsend”
- Polish: “Sandsend”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Sandsend”. Photo: Dave Eagle, CC BY-SA 2.0.