Whitby High Lighthouse
Whitby High Lighthouse is a lighthouse in Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre, Scarborough District, England. Whitby High Lighthouse is situated nearby to the building Whitby Lighthouse, as well as near the hamlet Stainsacre.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Whitby Lighthouse and Whitby Abbey.
Whitby Lighthouse
Building
Photo: Peter Johnson, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Whitby Lighthouse is a lighthouse operated by Trinity House. It is on Ling Hill, on the coast to the southeast of Whitby, beyond Saltwick Bay. To distinguish it from the two lighthouses in Whitby itself it is sometimes known as Whitby High lighthouse.
Whitby Abbey
Historic site
Photo: Aude, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, England, a centre of the medieval Northumbrian kingdom. Whitby Abbey is situated 1½ miles northwest of Whitby High Lighthouse.
Hawsker railway station
Railway station
Photo: Stephen McCulloch, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Hawsker was a railway station on the Scarborough & Whitby Railway. It opened on 16 July 1885, and served the villages of High Hawsker, Low Hawsker and Stainsacre. Hawsker railway station is situated 1¼ miles south of Whitby High Lighthouse.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Stainsacre and Whitby.
Stainsacre
Hamlet
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Stainsacre is a village in the civil parish of Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre in North Yorkshire on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. It lies 2 miles south-east of Whitby, near the A171 road.
Whitby
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Whitby is a picturesque town on the coast of North Yorkshire. It was the home of Captain Cook, but is more famous as the place where Bram Stoker's Dracula landed in England.
Ruswarp
Village
Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Ruswarp is a village in the civil parish of Whitby, in North Yorkshire, England. It is around 1.8 miles from Whitby, at the junction of the B1410 and B1416 roads, on the River Esk and the Esk Valley Line, with trains stopping at Ruswarp railway station. Ruswarp is situated 2½ miles west of Whitby High Lighthouse.
Whitby High Lighthouse
- Type: Lighthouse
- Categories: tourist attraction and tourism
- Location: Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre, Scarborough District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.47777° or 54° 28′ 40″ northLongitude
-0.56821° or 0° 34′ 6″ westElevation
253 feet (77 metres)Open location code
9C6XFCHJ+4PGeoNames ID
11694342
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