Most visitors to Whitby will traipse up the 199 steps that lead to the Abbey, though you can reach it by car, too. Adjacent is the Anglican church with gift shop, some houses, a caravan site and a ...

St Hilda might turn in her grave if she saw the modern Yorkshire town she helped to put on the map in the 7th Century, but there is still enough light to inspire a pilgrimage. Pottering around the ...

"Where is Dracula's grave" and many other "obvious questions" maybe on your lips when you visit Whitby. It is one of the ...

According to the English Heritage website in 1890 Stoker arrived in Whitby, it is believed the windswept headlands, the dramatic abbey ruins and swooping bats all helped inspire the novel. Visitors ...

The 12th-century St Mary’s and its graveyard on the cliff beside Whitby Abbey are the setting for Bram Stoker’s novel Dracula, and the clock tower has been described as a ‘local landmark ...

Bram Stoker set parts of Dracula in Whitby after a holiday there — the town's team are now in the first round of the FA Cup. ... including St Hilda roaming Whitby Abbey.

A church in North Yorkshire is pleading eager tourists to deter from asking about the vampire’s grave. Church leaders at the Church of St Mary the Virgin, have put up a poster in the entrance door ...

A gothic glow will be visible over Whitby this weekend. The famous abbey, which provided inspiration for Bram Stoker's book Dracula, will be illuminated in vivid colour as part of events to mark ...

As part of the 125 years since Bram Stoker’s novel was first published, staff at Whitby Abbey have spent this year celebrating all things Dracula - from quests and theatre performances to a ...

It’s Britain’s oldest seaside resort, revelling in nearly 400 years of kiss-me-quick history. Natural spring water was first found in Scarborough in 1626 and, when Dr Robert Whittle published ...