A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Whitby. You may be able to find further references to Whitby in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| WHITBY | a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial |
| WHITBY, REDCAR, and MIDDLESBOROUGH UNION RAILWAY | a railway | Imperial |
This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Whitby.
| Place | Type of entry | Source |
|---|---|---|
| AISLABY | a chapelry | Imperial |
| Baytown | name sometimes given to | Bartholomew |
| Dunsley | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| Eskdaleside | township | Bartholomew |
| ESKDALESIDE, or Sleights | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
| Fylingdales | coastal township | Bartholomew |
| GROSMONT, or GROMOND | a hamlet | Imperial |
| Hawsker with Stainsacre | coastal township | Bartholomew |
| HAWSKER-WITH-STAINSACRE | a township | Imperial |
| IBURN-DALE | a hamlet | Imperial |
| Newholm with Dunsley | township | Bartholomew |
| NEWHOLM-WITH-DUNSLEY | a township | Imperial |
| Normanby | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| Parkgate | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| Ramsdale | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| Raven Hill | Bartholomew | |
| Robin Hood's Bay | fishing town | Bartholomew |
| Rowe | hamlet | Bartholomew |
| Ruswarp | township and railway station | Bartholomew |
| RUSWARP | a township | Imperial |
| Sleights | village with railway station | Bartholomew |
| Sleights Moor | land common to two townships | Bartholomew |
| Stakesby Hall | seat | Bartholomew |
| Ugglebarnby | township | Bartholomew |
| UGGLEBARNBY | a township-chapelry | Imperial |
This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Whitby within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.
| Traveller | Section | No. of Refs. |
|---|---|---|
| George Head | North Riding | 10 |
| Thomas Pennant | July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed | 4 |
| William Camden | Yorkshire: East and North Ridings | 3 |
| George Head | Tees-side | 2 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 5 (London), Part 2: The City | 1 |
| Daniel Defoe | Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland | 1 |
| George Head | Liverpool | 1 |
| George Head | Hull | 1 |
| George Head | East Riding | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1751-3: Wesley's Marriage; Cornwall Smugglers; Illness and Recovery | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost | 1 |
| John Wesley | 1769-70: Opens a New Church; Comments on Rousseau; Geology; Swedenborg | 1 |
| Thomas Pennant | June 26-July 3: Cheshire to the East Riding | 1 |
| Thomas Pennant | Appendix VIII: Itinerary | 1 |
This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:
| Place | Mentioned in Travel Writing | Mentioned in Hist. Gazetteer |
|---|---|---|
| Ruswarp | 0 | 2 |
| Newholm | 0 | 2 |
| Ugglebarnby | 0 | 2 |
| Dunsley | 0 | 1 |
| Aislaby | 0 | 2 |
| Hawsker | 0 | 2 |
| Sandsend | 0 | 2 |
| Mulgrave Castle | 0 | 2 |
| Eskdaleside | 0 | 2 |
| Sneaton | 0 | 2 |
| Hutton Mulgrave | 0 | 2 |
| Sleights Moor | 0 | 1 |
| Barnby | 0 | 2 |
| Grosmont | 0 | 2 |
| Kettleness | 0 | 2 |
| Esk | 0 | 2 |
| Lythe | 0 | 2 |
| Robin Hoods Bay | 2 | 2 |
| Hob Holes | 0 | 2 |
| Fylingdales | 0 | 2 |