By about 1000 the neighbouring hamlet of Raw and village of Thorpe
(Fylingthorpe) in Fylingdales had been settled by Norwegians and Danes. After
the Norman Conquest in 1069 much land in the North of England, including
Fylingdales, was laid waste. William the Conqueror gave Fylingdales to Tancred
the Fleming who later sold it to the Abbot of Whitby. The earliest settlements
were about a mile inland at Raw but by about 1500 a settlement had grown up on
the coast. "Robin Hoode Baye" was first mentioned by Leland in 1536
who described it as,
"A fischer tounlet of 20 bootes with Dok or Bosom of a mile yn
length
