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St Mary’s Church, Whitby

The Church of Saint Mary is an Anglican serving the town of in England. It was founded around 1110, although its interior dates chiefly from the late 18th century.
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  • Type: Church
  • Denomination: Anglican
  • Description: Grade I listed church in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Church of Saint Mary, Whitby” and “St Mary’s”
  • Wheelchair access: limited

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Whitby Abbey and Cholmley House.

Historic site
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was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the on the East Cliff above in , England, a centre of the medieval . is situated 550 feet southeast of St Mary’s Church, Whitby.

Museum
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or Whitby Hall is a banqueting house sited next to the ruins of in , England. It was built in 1672 by Sir Hugh Cholmeley, whose family had acquired the Abbey ruins and the land around them after its dissolution in 1539. is situated 550 feet southeast of St Mary’s Church, Whitby.

Museum
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is a history museum in , , England. The museum building, Walker's House, belonged to Captain John Walker, to whom James Cook was apprenticed in 1746. is situated 900 feet southwest of St Mary’s Church, Whitby.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Whitby and Ewe Cote.

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is a picturesque town on the coast of . It was the home of Captain Cook, but is more famous as the place where Bram Stoker's Dracula landed in England.

Locality
is a small hamlet on the edge of the North York Moors National Park, set in the northern edge of the civil parish of , in , England.

Village
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is a village in the civil parish of , in , 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 .

St Mary’s Church, Whitby

Latitude
54.48895° or 54° 29′ 20″ north
Longitude
-0.60987° or 0° 36′ 36″ west
Open location code
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Open­Street­Map ID
way 158276579
Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map feature
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Open­Street­Map attribute
denomination=­anglican
Open­Street­Map attribute
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Wiki­data ID
Q2324024
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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 “St Mary’s Church, Whitby”. Photo: Tom Richardson, CC BY-SA 2.0.