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Louis Tracy (1863 - 1928) was a newspaper journalist and a very prolific author. He was reputedly born in Liverpool (although that is ...

RUNSWICK BAY Excellent day on the rocks at Runswick. I arrived at about an hour before low water. There was a persistent breeze rippling ...

Grindelia stricta is the scientific name of coastal gumweed, sometimes called the Oregon gum plant. It gets its name from the Latvian botan...

Chalk philosophy from an unknown author. Whitby Spa.

The Snap-dragon fly from Lewis Carol's third chapter of Through The Looking Glass, illustrated by John Tenniel. Its body is made of pl...

In the 1800s Whitby gingerbread was famous throughout the country with a reputation equal to that of York Muffins. Made from a stiff dough f...

This bronze age circle of stones on the edge of Harwood Dale forest looks particularly brooding in the gloom of a November afternoon be...

The Cleveland dyke is an intrusion of dark, hard rock which runs in a more or less straight line from the valley of the Tees near Eagle...

At the time of the Domesday Book the village of Hinderwell near Whitby was known as Hildrewell, clearly invoking the name of St. Hilda...

William Henry Bateson and his wife Anna Aiken Bateson came on holiday to Robin Hood's Bay in August 1861. They left their comfortable ho...