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Whitby to Robin Hood's Bay on the Cleveland Way
The classic clifftop day: abbey to bay past Saltwick, the lighthouse and the fog signal, with a bus back.
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Photo: Pauline EĀ , CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons
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Sandsend beach
Three miles of sand from Whitby to Sandsend, with the best rock pools at the far end.
Sandsend is the quieter end of Whitby's beach, a small village where a beck runs out under the road onto the sand. At low tide you can walk the whole way from Whitby's West Cliff along the beach. Beyond the village the old railway cuttings and alum quarries make a good cliff walk towards Kettleness, and there are rock pools and fossils under the cliffs.
Walks nearby
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Falling Foss and May Beck
Easy woodland loop to a waterfall, a tea garden and a hermit's cave.
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Whitby to Sandsend beach walk
Along the West Cliff and three miles of sand to a village cafe, then back on the bus or on foot.
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Ravenscar seal colony
Grey seals haul out on the rocks below the old alum works and can be watched from the cliff path.
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Boggle Hole
A smugglers' cove with a youth hostel in the old mill, a mile south of Robin Hood's Bay.
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Saltwick Bay
Dramatic little bay under the abbey cliffs with a shipwreck, sea stacks and fossils.