Yorkshire Coast
Events
Bridlington Ice Trail 2026: Dates and What to Expect
Ice sculptures, fire and ice displays and festive market stalls return to the East Yorkshire coast on 14 and 15 November, with the full programme still to come.
The Bridlington Ice Trail returns on Saturday...
Travel
6 Hidden Beaches on the Yorkshire Coast Worth the Walk Down
Filey and Robin Hood's Bay get the crowds. These six get the tide tables checked properly and a lot less company.
Everyone who has done a Yorkshire coast trip knows the big names: Filey, Scarborough,...
History
Flamborough Head: Britain’s Oldest Lighthouse and Its Smuggling Past
A lighthouse built in 1674 still stands on this headland. It was never lit. The man who built it went bankrupt before a single ship ever used it to find safe water, and it's...
History
8 Whitby Dracula Trail Stops That Inspired Bram Stoker’s Novel
Follow the real Whitby streets, cliffs and graveyard that gave Bram Stoker the bones of Dracula, then walk on to Sandsend where the story runs out of pavement.
Most visitors arrive in Whitby for the...
Travel
Robin Hood’s Bay Yorkshire: Inside England’s Most Famous Smugglers’ Village
Where the contraband trade built a village, and Alfred Wainwright chose to end his greatest walk.
Robin Hood's Bay Yorkshire sits at the foot of a steep bank on the North Yorkshire Heritage Coast, 16...
Travel
Staithes North Yorkshire: The Village That Made Captain Cook a Sailor
Most people visit Whitby for Captain Cook. Staithes, Yorkshire, tells the earlier part of that story, and almost nobody goes there.
Most people visit Whitby for Captain Cook. They photograph the statue on the West...
History
Fossil Hunting Yorkshire Coast: 10 Beaches Worth the Tide
From ammonites at Saltwick Bay to Cretaceous clay at Speeton, the Yorkshire coast puts 175 million years of prehistory within reach of the tide line.
Most people know Whitby for the abbey and Dracula. They...
Travel
Runswick Bay, Yorkshire: The Complete Guide to the Coast’s Best-Kept Secret
A village that fell into the sea, a cave that cured whooping cough, and Jurassic fossils in the shale at your feet.
Most people drive straight to Whitby. They park, they queue for fish and...
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