Whitby
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.- Type: Town with 13,200 residents
- Description: town in North Yorkshire, England, UK
- Also known as: “Streanæshalc”, “Streneshalc”, “Streoneshalch”, “Streoneshalh”, “Streonhealh”, “Streunes-Alae”, “Whitbey”, “Whitby, England”, “Whitby, North Yorkshire”, “Whitby, Scarborough”, “휫비”, and “ウィトビア”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Whitby Abbey and Whitby railway station.
Whitby Abbey
Historic site
Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey.
Whitby railway station
Railway station
Whitby is a railway station serving the town of Whitby in North Yorkshire, England.
Captain Cook Memorial Museum
Museum
Captain Cook Memorial Museum is a history museum in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Ruswarp and Stainsacre.
Whitby
- Categories: town of the United Kingdom, civil parish, and locality
- Location: Scarborough District, North Yorkshire, Yorkshire, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.4866° or 54° 29′ 12″ north
Longitude
-0.6136° or 0° 36′ 49″ west
Population
13,200
Elevation
46 feet (14 metres)
UN/LOCODE
GB WTB
Open location code
9C6XF9PP+JH
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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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: “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”
- Kannada: “ವಿಟ್ಬಿ”
- Korean: “휘트비”
- Ladin: “Whitby”
- Latin: “Witebia”
- Lithuanian: “Vitbis”
- Macedonian: “Витби”
- Moksha: “Витби”
- 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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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Dock End and Scotch Head.
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