18 – 19 May 2019
At this FREE Festival
Explore everything that’s special about the Yorkshire Coast’s magnificent maritime culture, from the building of its boats to its multi award-winning fish restaurants.
Dark Skies
The festival season starts early in Yorkshire and there’s bound to be something to tempt you to visit the coast.
Those dark nights make the perfect backdrop for the North Yorkshire Moors National Park’s Dark Skies Festival (February 15th to March 3rd). This year, the park has teamed up with the Yorkshire Dales National Park for the fourth annual festival.
A new exhibition in Whitby – Whitby and the Cosmos: The Search for the Dark Matter, which will trace the port’s place in understanding our universe.
All our guests staying with us at Unique-retreats enjoy a copy of the monthly issue of Yorkshire Life magazine, giving lots of information about Yorkshire, including articles like below and tips on where to eat, drink, walks etc ……….
A starry sky behind the Captain Cook monument on the West Cliff at Whitby. Eighteenth century scientific instruments used by Captain Cook’s research team during their exploration of the South Seas feature in an new exhibition Whitby and the Cosmos: the Search for Dark Matter Photo: Tony Bartholomew
Why not join us in December for a short break as we will be all trimmed up for Christmas at Unique Retreats and nowhere celebrates Christmas quite like the Yorkshire Coast! From glittering Christmas light displays and parades, to festive shows and cabarets, discover the true meaning of Christmas this year.
From its dramatic coastline to its upland mountains, from its stirring moorland to its bucolic inland shires, Britain’s wildly diverse landscapes make for some of the world’s best walking.
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The first meeting of a group of pen-pals has now turned into a twice annual event for the town of Whitby, know as the Whitby Goth Weekend, WGW. In 1994, a group of about 40 pen-pals decided to gather together after meeting through the pages of New Musical Express, a music magazine more popularly known as NME. The meet-up was organised by Jo Hampshire, who is the head of Top Mum Productions, quickly became known as a musical event.
Whitby Abbey And The Hundred And Ninety-Nine Steps
Climbing the hundred and ninety-nine steps and walking around Whitby Abbey may sound like a mundane activity for an evening out.
However, unlike through the day when it appears simply as a fascinating and beautiful piece of history, at night, it takes on a completely different hue.
(Takes about 2 hours to complete from the cottages. The walk can be shortened by leaving your car by the cricket club, or even shorter by leaving your car in Ruswarp – see notes below)
Our Top 7 Places to visit in Whitby
If you’re looking for a charming seaside destination on the east coast of the country, you’ll be hard pressed to find a more enticing mix of things to do than at this famous harbour town.
The Whitby Regatta 2018 is a boat lovers dream as people gather for a three-day festival featuring rowing team competitions, yacht races and rafters competing against each other along the North Yorkshire county coast. What started out as a modest competition between fisherman has grown to be the oldest sea regatta in England with large crowds gathering for the past 173 years.