Cholmley House
Cholmley House or Whitby Hall is a banqueting house sited next to the ruins of Whitby Abbey in North Yorkshire, 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.Photo: RichTea, CC BY-SA 2.0.
- Type: Museum
- Description: 17th-Century English banquetting house in Whitby, Yorkshire
- Wheelchair access: yes
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Whitby Abbey and St Mary’s Church, Whitby.
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 330 feet northeast of Cholmley House.
St Mary’s Church, Whitby
Church
Photo: Chris06, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Church of Saint Mary is an Anglican parish church serving the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire England. It was founded around 1110, although its interior dates chiefly from the late 18th century. St Mary’s Church, Whitby is situated 550 feet northwest of Cholmley House.
Captain Cook Memorial Museum
Museum
Photo: Aude, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Captain Cook Memorial Museum is a history museum in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. The museum building, Walker's House, belonged to Captain John Walker, to whom James Cook was apprenticed in 1746. Captain Cook Memorial Museum is situated 770 feet southwest of Cholmley House.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ruswarp and Ewe Cote.
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.
Ewe Cote
Locality
Ewe Cote is a small hamlet on the edge of the North York Moors National Park, set in the northern edge of the civil parish of Whitby, in North Yorkshire, England.
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. Stainsacre is situated 2 miles south of Cholmley House.
Cholmley House
- Categories: building, tourism, and tourist attraction
- Location: Whitby, Scarborough District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.48765° or 54° 29′ 16″ northLongitude
-0.60852° or 0° 36′ 31″ westOpen location code
9C6XF9QR+3HOpenStreetMap ID
way 25749716OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=museumOpenStreetMap attribute
wheelchair=yesWikidata ID
Q5104372
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