WHITBY

 Of course, everyone knows Whitby Abbey, and its' connections with Dracula, but there is much more to this little fishing town.

Just below the Abbey ruins, is the church of St. Mary and its graveyard. From there down to the cobbled streets and the harbour below, there is a flight of 199 steps! (Not too bad going down - different matter walking back up!)

The town is divided in two by the River Esk and the harbour. 

The Abbey ruins sit high on a cliff overlooking the town, and the atmosphere, even without knowing Bram Stoker's story, is menacing.

The abbey, which was built on the site of an Anglo-Saxon monastery from 657AD, was built in the late 11th. century, extensively rebuilt in the 1220s, and dissolved at the order of Henry VIII in 1539.