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Robin Hood's Bay

Wrecks were very common in the early days. One memorable night in 1881, a large brig ‘Visitor’ was run aground. The sea was so rough the lifeboat had to be dragged eight miles in the snow to Robin Hood’s Bay to be launched. The whole crew of the ‘Visitor’ were saved thanks to the people of the village.

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Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, English Coastal Scenes

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Robin Hood's Bay

In 1780 disaster struck in the Bay, fierce gales and the strong sea caused many of the cottages along King Street to fall into the tide. Again in 1791, part of Park Road disappeared into the sea, over a century later a strong sea wall was built. In 1975, at the cost of £578,000, the highest sea wall in Britain, measuring 500 feet long and 40 feet high, was constructed ensuring no more of the old Robin Hood’s Bay was taken to its grave by the ever faithful sea.

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Robin Hood's Bay

Perhaps one of the most popular, charming and picturesque fishing villages in the country, Robin Hood’s Bay lies six miles south of Whitby in North Yorkshire. The origins of the name are unknown but there are many speculations. Unfortunately there is no connection to the legendary outlaw and Robin Hood's Bay.

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Smuggling at Robin Hood's Bay

"RobinHood's Bay was surely built for smuggling. Possibly some of Robin Hood's men, if smuggling then existed, were engaged in the exciting pasttime of smuggling contraband goods; at any rate, their successors were past masters in the art. Almost every house had some handy recess for the concealment of goods, often hollowed out of the rock itself. On October 6th, 1779, Officers of the Excise seized in the dwelling of one of the innkeepers two hundred casks of brandy and geneva, 150 bags of tea, and a chest full of blunderbuses and cartuch boxes for twenty men. But the band of smugglers forced them to surrender all but twenty casks and ten bags of tea; the commander of the vessel coming to the rescue being none other than the celebrated Dover, who had just before broken into the Custom House at Hartlepool." The history of Robin Hood's Bay by Robert Jermyn Copper. (more can be find on website : http://www.scarboroughsmaritimeheritage.org.uk/arobin hoodsbaysmuggle.php ) Smugglers is a candle lit bistro in the heart of the Old Bay, nestled in the Dock, just a few meters from the shoreline.

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Robin Hood's Bay, North Yorkshire, Pubs And Inns

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