Whitby is a seaside town, port and civil parish in the Borough of
Scarborough and English county of North Yorkshire. Prior to local government
reorganisations in the late 1960s it was considered to be part of the North
Riding of Yorkshire. Situated on the east coast of Yorkshire at the mouth of
the River Esk, Whitby has an established maritime, mineral and tourist
heritage. Its East Cliff is home to the ruins of Whitby Abbey, where Caedmon,
the earliest recognised English poet, lived. The fishing port emerged during
the Middle Ages and developed important herring and whaling fleets, and was
(along with the
