Essential Whitby: Discover the town’s legends on a self-guided audio tour
Description
It’s not easy journeying to Whitby, so it’s important to make the most of your time here. On this self-guided GPS audio tour, I'll introduce you to major local characters, engrossing legends and hidden treasures in this historic town, over a millennium in the making. Whether this is your first visit or your thirtieth, this tour is certain to make you look at Whitby in a new light. It also provides an ideal introduction to sites like the Whitby Abbey, the Captain Cook Memorial Museum and the Endeavour Experience, which you can return to at the end of the tour. On this tour, you'll hear about: • Some of the greatest voyages of exploration of all time • Why people once thought the town was infested with serpents • How Whitby jet, a gemstone, inspired the novel Dracula • An illiterate poet • Why there’s a polar bear in the town centre • Why the houses with the best views were some of the cheapest • The Hand of Glory and where to find it
Tour Options
Itinerary
The tour begins next to the Captain Cook Memorial Statue.
On this tour, you'll briefly stop outside The Granby pub.
The tour takes you around Pannett Park
The tour takes you passed the Church of Saint John the Evangelist
The tour passes by the Captain Cook Memorial Museum.
This tour takes you onto the Tate Hill Pier
The tour passes the 199 Steps memorial.
The tour takes you around the Church of St Mary.
The tour ends outside the Whitby Abbey.
Highlights
What's included
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Reviews(49)
A very good informative tour that you can do at your own pace
Perfect tour. Very informative with good humour
Would highly recommend this tour. We had a fab time doing this with our two dogs. It really made a wet gloomy day so much more fun. Super easy to set up and follow.
Listen and Enjoy! Loved it! It was great to stop and start when I wanted. I veered off the tour for a bit to look at something else along the way and then simply took up where I left off! Lots of great information I shared with locals who are keen to do the tour! Excellent way to begin a visit to Whitby! This would be great for all the small townships around Whitby!
Very interesting tour of the town with lots of quirky historical stories and information provided. Guide is very passionate about the town which showed in the level of detail. Highly recommended.
Excellent self guided tour. So easy to set up and use, brilliant that it can be paused along the way. Very interesting information that appealed to us and our teenagers. Good value for money.
We came in to Whitby on the Middlesborough train joining at Castleton Moor at around 11.00. We left Whitby at 16.00 for the return. It was charming and scenic. This line is a lot cheaper than from Pickering, except without any steam engines.
Only went for the day this time had a fabulous lunch at Marine the sea food platter excellent. Whitby is a charming sea side town with many good shops and bars.
First time to use this type of app and found it very easy to use. The narrator was excellent, both informative, light hearted and easy to listen to. The whole package is excellent with the ability to pause and rejoin the tour or to listen to the commentary away from the tour to remind yourself about certain facts or stories. Highly recommended and would use similar tours again.
Great audio tour of Whitby. We liked the way it stopped when we stopped for a beer or cake. The narrator was amusing and knowledgeable. Highly recommended.
