Whitestone Point

Places of Interest

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 west of Whitestone Point.

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.

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Stainsacre

Hamlet

Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Stainsacre is a village in the civil parish of Hawsker-cum-Stainsacre, in the English county of North Yorkshire and situated on the edge of the North York Moors National Park.

Whitby

Photo: matthewhartley369, CC BY-SA 2.0.

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 Whitestone Point.

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