Images from our recent visit to Whitby Abbey, Whitby, North Yorkshire, England.
(Shot raw and processed using: DxO PhotoLab Elite/ ViewPoint and Adobe Lightroom Classic/ Photoshop with Tony Kuyper TK-9 Panels).
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Phil and Karen
1. The Whitby headland was settled during the late Bronze Age, after which it is thought to have been occupied by a Roman signal station, a large Anglian community and Danish Vikings.
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2. In about 1078 a monk called Reinfrid founded a monastic community at Whitby and from around 1100 a stone church and conventual buildings were built in the Romanesque style.
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3. In the 13th century the monastery church was rebuilt in the Gothic style. This was a massive undertaking, including major landscaping of the whole site.
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4. The Abbey fell victim to the dissolution of the monasteries (1536-1541) after which the abbey’s buildings and the core of its estates were bought by Sir Richard Cholmley. Ownership of the abbey ruins eventually passed to the Strickland family (descendants of the Cholmley’s).
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5. In 1914 the German High Seas Fleet shelled Whitby and struck the abbey ruins, causing considerable damage to the west front, though this was repaired.
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6. Bram Stoker arrived in Whitby, at the end of July 1890. He was working on a new story, set in Styria in Austria, with a central character called Count Wampyr. While visiting the town’s public library he found a book which mentioned a 15th-century prince called Vlad Tepes who impaled his enemies on wooden stakes. He was known as Dracula – the ‘son of the dragon’. The publication of his novel Dracula in 1897 gave Whitby a major literary association, ensuring the sinister count would forever be associated with the town.
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(Sources: English Heritage).
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