Whitby Abbey

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Whitby Abbey
Whitby Abbey

We were revisiting the coastal town of Whitby and finally decided to actually climb the 199 steps to St Mary’s Church and Whitby Abbey having not had the time to do so on several previous occasions!
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, a centre of the medieval Northumbrian kingdom. The abbey and its possessions were confiscated by the crown under Henry VIII during the Dissolution of the Monasteries between 1536 and 1545. Since that time, the ruins of the abbey have continued to be used by sailors as a landmark at the headland.
Bram Stoker's 1897 novel Dracula featured Count Dracula as a creature resembling a large dog which came ashore at the headland and runs up the 199 steps to the graveyard of St Mary's Church in the shadow of the Whitby Abbey ruins. There is a legend that a white lady is seen in one of the windows.

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Taken on: May 17, 2022
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