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Ravenscar

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Ravenscar is the seaside town that never got built. An Edwardian developer laid out roads and sewers to rival Scarborough, but the clifftop was too bleak and the beach too far below, and the buyers never came. What’s left is a windswept clifftop with tremendous views over Robin Hood’s Bay and a fine stretch of the Cleveland Way. The nearest trains are on the Esk Valley Line over towards Whitby.

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Photo of the North York Moors, a National Park in North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

North York Moors

You’re inside itNational Park near Rosedale Abbey

The largest heather moorland in England, purple in late summer, edged by a fine coast.

Photo: Ravenscar Cliffs, a viewpoint in the North York Moors, North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Ravenscar Cliffs

Viewpoint near Ravenscar

A clifftop of dramatic sea views above the old Peak Alum Works, looking north to Robin Hood's Bay.

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Photo along the Coast to Coast, a 190-mile National Trail running from St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay, England.Highlight

Coast to Coast

National Trail

Wainwright's own invention: St Bees to Robin Hood's Bay through three national parks.

4.4 km NW · North Yorkshire & Cumbria

Photo of Robin Hood's Bay, a village in the North York Moors, North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Robin Hood's Bay

Village

A smugglers' village of cobbled alleys tumbling down a ravine to a rocky, fossil-strewn shore.

4.8 km NW · North Yorkshire

Photo of Falling Foss, a waterfall near Goathland in the North York Moors, North Yorkshire, northern England.Highlight

Falling Foss

Waterfall near Goathland

A thirty-foot fall in the woods of Little Beck near Whitby, with a tea garden at its lip and the Hermitage — a boulder hollowed into a cell in 1790 — up the path.

9.3 km W

Photo of Whitby Abbey, a ruined monastery in North Yorkshire, northern England.Iconic

Whitby Abbey

Monastery · Benedictine near Whitby

Gaunt clifftop ruin above the harbour town.

12.5 km NW