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Wednesday, January 22nd, 2025
the Second Week after Epiphany
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Whitby
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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A seaport and famous bathing-place in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 54½ m. NE. of York; is situated at the mouth of the Esk, and looks N. over the German Ocean; it consists of an old fishing town sloping upwards, and a fashionable new town above and behind it, with the ruins of an abbey; Captain Cook was a 'prentice here, and it was in Whitby-built ships, "the best and stoutest bottoms in England," that he circumnavigated the globe.
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Whitby'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/w/whitby.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Whitby'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/w/whitby.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
