Escape the traffic and travel to Whitby Abbey by train, bus or bicycle and be rewarded with 20% off your walk-up ticket. Today, it’s a picturesque and peaceful village by the sea and one I would highly recommend visiting. Scarborough also used to be a spa resort and was popular with the aristocracy as a place to ‘take the waters’.

Following Dracula tourism, Whitby is a haven for Goths of all kinds and so it’s only natural that there are some ghoulishly delightful treats on offer! There have been so many books written on Dracula over the years, as an iconic figure he has appeared in over 215 films and I hadn’t realised that since its publication in 1897 Dracula has never been out of print. If you have a spare hour while in Whitby and a solid heart to go with it, participate in the Dracula Experience. But, you can drive up to Whitby Abbey or get the Whitby Open Bus tour that runs from the Whitby Visitor Centre in town.

Our home town has been our greatest source of inspiration in creating Whitby Gin, providing the flavours and philosophy which make our gin so distinctive. The original story was written as an epistolary novel – that is the tale is told as if compiled from letters, diary entries, newspaper cuttings, transcripts of phonograph recordings (the phonograph cylinder was a comparatively new invention at the time – the equivalent of today’s Blu-Ray disc), and ship’s log entries.

August 1890 marks the discovery of this name, the same date Dracula’s fictional ship runs aground in Whitby. With the uneven floors, it's downright dangerous in there, most of it's broken and virtually non-existent, rather than being dimly lit and spooky. This is a very popular alternative/gothic music festival usually held around May and early November.Don’t go in expecting this to last hours it is a walk around attraction but it has good theming and a few jump scares. Explore 3,000 years of history in the new permanent exhibition with dramatic displays of unique objects and an interactive guide. The novel starts with Dracula travelling from Russia to London on a shipwrecked schooner off Whitby’s coast. Trains to Whitby: Fortunately, Whitby has its own train station, so you can take a Northern Rail service and it will drop you right in the centre of town. To enable personalized advertising (like interest-based ads), we may share your data with our marketing and advertising partners using cookies and other technologies.