Robin Hood's Bay
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| Coordinates | 54 ° 26 ′ N , 0 ° 32 ′ W | ||
| OS National Grid | NZ950053 | ||
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| Post town | WHITBY | ||
| ZIP code section | YO22 | ||
| prefix | 01947 | ||
| Part of the country | England | ||
| region | Yorkshire and the Humber | ||
| Shire county | North Yorkshire | ||
| District | Scarborough | ||
| British Parliament | Scarborough and Whitby | ||
| Website: robin-hoods-bay.co.uk | |||
Robin Hood's Bay (German: Robin Hoods Bucht ) is a small fishing village on the British North Sea coast southeast of the city of Whitby at the inner end of the bay of the same name. Since the 1990s the place gained great tourist importance. There is no substantive connection to the figure of Robin Hood , the name seems to be chosen arbitrarily. The local and traditional name of the village is Bay Town .
structure
Robin Hood's Bay consists of two parts: the traditional lower village by the sea, in which mostly small fishermen's houses stand on narrow streets, and the more spacious upper village at the upper edge of the cliff, which is around 50 meters around the (now disused) train station higher. A steep road connects the two parts. The footpath on this street is largely designed as a staircase.
traffic
Robin Hood's Bay had a station on the 1965 discontinued and then dismantled railway line Scarborough - Whitby . Today there are bus connections to Whitby and Scarborough. The village is easily accessible by car via the A171 Whitby – Scarborough.
Born in Robin Hood's Bay
- Mary Bateson (1865–1906), historian and suffragette.
tourism
The bay has a sandy beach on its inner edge, which has made Robin Hood's Bay popular as a seaside resort. The upper village offers hotel and private accommodation, restaurants and souvenir shops have settled in the lower village. A little south is a youth hostel, Boggle Hole . Numerous farms offer camping opportunities.
Hiking trails
Robin Hood's Bay is located on the Cleveland Way , a national long-distance hiking trail, and is the end point of the Coast to Coast Walk . The former railway line is now a cycle path and part of several cycle routes.
geology
The Wine Haven profile of Robin Hood's Bay is the Global Boundary Stratotype Section and Point (GSSP: corresponds approximately to a type profile) of the Pliensbachian , the time from 189.6 to 183 million years BC. BC, one of the four chronographical lower stages of the lower Jurassic .
The York Museum Stone is said to come from the area .
literature
- MK Howart: The Lower Lias of Robin Hood's Bay, Yorkshire, and the work of Leslie Bairstow. In: Bulletin of The Natural History Museum. Geology Series 58/2002, pp. 81–152 Cambridge University Press, The Natural History Museum, 2002, doi : 10.1017 / S0968046202000037 ( abstract )
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ GSSP for the Sinemurian-Pliensbachian Boundary , www.stratigraphy.org