Heritage Town Tour
with The Baron - Harry Collett

If you want to know Whitby better … and reach the parts that other visitors miss … join THE BARON for an entertaining walk designed to inform and amuse, as you discover the buildings and historical characters of this ‘Tawld Spot’.

Eastside Tour

This introduction tour takes you around the ancient heart of the old town, and includes the legend of the Penny Hedge, the Abbey Packhorse road, the 199 Steps, yards, alleys, and ghauts and embraces whaling, jet and smuggling in a one and a half hour walkabout.

Westside Tour

Examines the development of the shipbuilding and its allied industries of sail making, rope manufacture, the development of the railways and the advent of new Whitby in the reign of Queen Victoria.

Whitby New Town

Victorian Whitby at its best: elegant crescents, home for wealthy shipowners, large boarding houses, a private theatre, the gathering place for authors, and a hotel famous for its connections with Dracula.

Tombstone Tour

A closer look at St. Mary’s Parish Churchyard gives an informative insight of this important area of Whitby’s rich and varied heritage.

Whitby Ghost Walks

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In Search of Dracula

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In The Footsteps Of Cook

Though born a farm labourer’s son James Cook was ‘a brilliant seaman, explorer, navigator, astronomical observer and chart maker’. Tread the streets, see the houses that Cook knew in Whitby before he embarked on his career in the Navy.

For early and late season,
bookings are required

Tel: 01947 821734

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