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Whitby certainly is an old town with a deep history, which still retains lots of character today.
By alan on Sep 07, 2009 in History Whitby
In 656, in Anglo-Saxon times, Whitby was actually called Streonshal. This was when Osway was the Christian King of Northumbria and founded Whitby Abbey under its first Abbess, Hilda.
Over two hundred years later in 867, the monastery was brought to the ground by Viking raiders and was not rebuilt for over 200 years until 1078. [...]
