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Whitby

Whitby 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.
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  • Type: Town with 13,200 residents
  • Description: town in North Yorkshire, England, UK
  • Also known as: “Whitby, England”, “Whitby, North Yorkshire”, and “Whitby, Scarborough”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Whitby Abbey and Whitby railway station.

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 Whitby in , England, a centre of the medieval .

Railway station
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Whitby is a railway station serving the town of Whitby in , England. It is the southern terminus of the Esk Valley Line from .

Museum
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is a history museum in Whitby, , England. The museum building, Walker's House, belonged to Captain John Walker, to whom James Cook was apprenticed in 1746.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ruswarp and Stainsacre.

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

Hamlet
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is a village in the civil parish of in on the edge of the North York Moors National Park. It lies 2 miles south-east of Whitby, near the A171 road.

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 Whitby, in , England.

Whitby

Latitude
54.4867° or 54° 29′ 12″ north
Longitude
-0.6135° or 0° 36′ 49″ west
Population
13,200
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB WTB
Open location code
9C6XF9PP+MH
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20923539
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2634135
Wiki­data ID
Q852778
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Whitby” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “ويتبي”
  • Armenian: “Ուիթբի”
  • Asturian: “Whitby”
  • Basque: “Whitby”
  • Bengali: “হুইটবাই”
  • Breton: “Whitby”
  • Catalan: “Whitby”
  • Cebuano: “Whitby”
  • Chinese: “威特比”
  • Chinese: “惠特比”
  • Czech: “Whitby”
  • Danish: “Whitby”
  • Dutch: “Whitby”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “مدينة ويتبى”
  • Esperanto: “Whitby”
  • Estonian: “Streanæshalc”
  • Estonian: “Streneshalc”
  • Estonian: “Streoneshalch”
  • Estonian: “Streoneshalh”
  • Estonian: “Streunes-Alae”
  • Estonian: “Whitby”
  • French: “Whitby”
  • Galician: “Whitby”
  • German: “Whitby”
  • Gujarati: “વિટબી”
  • Hebrew: “ויטבי”
  • Hungarian: “Whitby”
  • Indonesian: “Whitby”
  • Irish: “Whitby”
  • Italian: “Whitby”
  • Japanese: “ウィットビー”
  • Japanese: “ウィトビア”
  • Kannada: “ವಿಟ್ಬಿ”
  • Korean: “휘트비”
  • Korean: “휫비”
  • Ladin: “Whitby”
  • Latin: “Witebia”
  • Lithuanian: “Vitbis”
  • Macedonian: “Витби”
  • Moksha: “Витби”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Whitbey”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Whitby”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Whitby”
  • Norwegian: “Whitby”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Hƿitby”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Strēanæshealh”
  • Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Strēoneshalh”
  • Persian: “ویتبای”
  • Persian: “ویتبی”
  • Polish: “Whitby”
  • Portuguese: “Whitby”
  • Romanian: “Whitby”
  • Russian: “Уитби”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Whitby”
  • Slovak: “Whitby”
  • Slovenian: “Whitby”
  • South Azerbaijani: “ویتبی”
  • Spanish: “Whitby”
  • Swedish: “Whitby”
  • Tamil: “வ்ஹிட்பி”
  • Telugu: “వైట్ బై”
  • Turkish: “Whitby”
  • Ukrainian: “Вітбі”
  • Urdu: “وٹبی”
  • Volapük: “Whitby”
  • Welsh: “Whitby”
  • “Whitby”

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