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Runswick Bay
A mile of sheltered sand beneath a picture-book village of red-roofed cottages, one of the finest beaches on the coast
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Robin Hood's Bay beach and fossils
Rock pools, ammonites and a vast rocky scar exposed at low tide.
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Staithes harbour and beach
Tiny harbour, fossil beach and the Cleveland Way clifftop path.
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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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Sandsend beach
Three miles of sand from Whitby to Sandsend, with the best rock pools at the far end.
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Saltwick Bay
Dramatic little bay under the abbey cliffs with a shipwreck, sea stacks and fossils.
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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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Hayburn Wyke
A waterfall that tumbles straight onto a boulder beach in a wooded cove south of Ravenscar.
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Saltburn pier and cliff tramway
The last pier on the north-east coast and the oldest water-balanced cliff lift in Britain.
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Whitby West Cliff and the whalebone arch
The Victorian side of town: whalebone arch, Captain Cook statue, the Royal Crescent and views to the abbey.
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Ravenscar National Trust Visitor Centre
National Trust information centre and shop at the start of the coast path to Robin Hood's Bay, with seal-watching and alum-works walks