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• Summer's Here in Sunny Whitby!

  02 June 2014

  It's happened. At last. The sun is out! Well, it was through last week and over the weekend anyway!

• Whitby Regatta 2014 - It'll Soon be Here!

  28 April 2014

  The Whitby Regatta 2014 will be held on August 9th,10th,11th and will present four days of entertainment.  Embracing yacht racing, rowing races and various free forms of entertainment as published in the official programme, finishing with a prize presentation and spectacular firework display.

• Staithes Art Festival 2014

  25 April 2014

  Over the weekend of 13/14 September 2014 scores of cottages and public buildings will again throw open their doors to the public as pop-up galleries for a selling exhibition of work by local and visiting artists.

• Whitby Folk Week 2014

  15 April 2014

  2014's Whitby Folk Week will run from Saturday 16th to Friday 22nd August.  As one of the UK's premier folk music events, Whitby Folk Week now draws over 600 acts from around the country to perform in a wide variety of wonderful locations throughout the town.

• 100 Days Until Le Tour Begins in Yorkshire

  27 March 2014

  A major new international cycle race for Yorkshire, the official anthem of Yorkshire’s Grand Départ 2014 and a new marketing campaign to shine a spotlight on the county were all launched at the Y 14 event today – officially marking 100 days until the Tour de France arrives in the county.

• Did You Know? Whitby Abbey - the home of Easter

  20 March 2014

  The date of Easter changes every year. It can fall anytime between 22 March and 25 April, but as people enjoy the family fun trail around Whitby Abbey this Easter weekend (29th March to 1st April), how many of them will realise that the date of Easter was agreed within Whitby Abbey itself?

• Yorkshire - When Are You Coming?

  14 October 2013

  As you'll well know, Whitby is in Yorkshire - (probably) the best county in the UK!

• Welcome to our New Website

  12 March 2013

  We thought it was time for a bit of a refresh!