TOURING THE WHITBY WAY
Fast fact
The first settlement in Whitby dates from 656, and its long history includes smuggling, whaling – and ghosts!
Duration
Seven days
When
Autumn 2021
Why?
Splendid scenery, intriguing history and a spooky selection of myths and legends
There’s the right way, the wrong way, and then there’s the Whitby way. Every visitor to Whitby will hear this saying oft repeated throughout the town and no, it doesn’t refer to a walking path as I first thought, something akin to the Cumbria Way or the South West Coast Path.
What it in fact refers to is something I began to feel and relate to, the more time I spent in the town and among its people.
Rather than try to explain, the best way to illustrate the Whitby Way is with an example. Why have one St Hilda’s Church when you can have two, one at each end of the same street (and by the way, one of them houses a colony of bats which, according to locals, inspired Bram Stoker to turn Dracula into a bat to allow him in through Mina’s bedroom window)?
Or there’s the street with three names. When businessman and ‘railway king’ George Hudson employed a team of builders to construct
