 Whitby Holiday Cottages - Luxury 3 Bedroomed Cottage - Beautifully Furnished and Fully Appointed |
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Holiday Cottage in Whitby: the luxury self catering cottage for you in Whitby, Grosmont and North Yorkshire.At Valley View Holiday Cottage, we offer a generous self catering luxury holiday cottage in Whitby, Grosmont and North Yorkshire. Surrounded by beautiful countryside in the middle of Heartbeat country, our holiday cottage is in an area made famous by the popular ITV programme. Tourism started in Whitby in Georgian times and developed with the coming of the railway in 1839. Tourist interest is enhanced by its location surrounded by the high ground of the North York Moors national park and heritage coastline and by association with the horror novel Dracula. Jet and alum were mined locally, and Whitby jet, which was mined by the Romans and Victorians became fashionable during the 19th century. About Whitby AreaWhitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Scarborough borough of North Yorkshire, England. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of the River Esk, Whitby has a combined maritime, mineral and tourist heritage, and is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey where Caedmon, the earliest English poet, lived. The fishing port emerged during the Middle Ages and developed important herring and whaling fleets, and was where Captain Cook learned seamanship. ...click here to read More
A wide range of health care services is provided by the Whitby Community Hospital, run by the Scarborough and North East Yorkshire Health Care NHS Trust. There are five general practitioners and five dentists in the area. Yorkshire Ambulance Service provides hospital transport throughout Yorkshire. Whitby fire station, run by North Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service, is crewed between 8 am and 6 pm. The town's two police stations are provided by the North Yorkshire Police Authority. The lifeboat station built in 2007, on the east bank, is operated by the Royal National Lifeboat Institution. |
The harbour is sheltered by the grade II listed east and west piers each with a lighthouse and beacon with fixed lights.
The west lighthouse, of 1835, is the taller at 84 feet (25.5 m) and the east lighthouse, built in 1855, is 54 feet (16.5 m) high.
On the west pier extension is a foghorn that sounds a blast every 30 seconds during fog.[