Enjoy a tour of the Captain Cook Memorial Museum

The Captain Cook Memorial Museum has a wide range of art exhibitions and shows on a regular basis, so you’re bound to be visiting when something is on. Otherwise, there is the main museum exhibition, which you can easily lose a few hours enjoying. The Museum is located on Grape Lane and is based in the house where Captain Cook served his apprenticeship as a seaman. It is here where he learned his maritime skills which helped him on his voyages of discovery. Prices are around £5.40 for adults and £3 for children. Group bookings are also possible.

Phone: +44 1947 601 900

Address: Grape Lane, Whitby YO22 4BA

Trains

To get the train into surrounding villages head to the train station which is just past the bus station. You can pick up the train from Whitby station to neighbouring villages. There is a ticket office where you can check schedules and destinations.

Try and take a steam train if you can.

Walking

The cottage’s location allows you to walk into town, join coastal walks and have easy access to the beaches.

Click on the link below for ideas for sights to see while in the area.

https://www.visityorkshire.co.uk/moors-coast/attractions/

Coastal Walking

There are coastal paths in both directions from Whitby.

From the coastguard cottages near the abbey the path goes to Robin Hood’s Bay and beyond. (The X93 bus, half-hourly in summer, hourly in winter, goes through Robin Hoods Bay for a return to Whitby)

From Sandsend the old cinder track, the bed of the disused railway line, can be accessed via a flight of steps in the car park at the bottom of Lythe Bank. After about a mile steep steps leads up onto the cliff top, from which the path leads to Kettleness, Runswick and Staithes. (The X4 runs through Staithes and Runswick, half-hourly, for a return trip to Whitby)

The Cinder Track

The cinder track, leading from Whitby to Scarborough, a total distance of about 20 miles, can be accessed in several places, thus creating shorter walks. To get onto the track in Whitby, follow the A171 Scarborough road, to the corner of Pannett Park and a small roundabout. Take the small road, Southend Gardens, between houses, to a tunnel. (This can be seen from the roundabout) This is the Cinder Track, accessed either up steps before the tunnel, or a ramp on the other side of the tunnel.

The walk from here to Robin Hood’s Bay is about 6 miles and is fairly level, easier than the very undulating coast path. However, for a shorter walk drive out of Whitby on the Scarborough road, A171, for approximately 3 miles, to Haw. Park in the layby opposite Robin Hood’s Bay road, B1447, and walk back about 50 yards to a pelican crossing. Cross the road and you are now on the track, 3 miles to RHB.

There are some other walking ideas in the guest information book in the cottage.