Robin Hood's Bay

Robin Hood's Bay, a fishing-village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, 6½ miles SE. of Whitby by the coast railway to Scarborough, opened in 1885. The bay on which it stands is picturesquely fringed by lofty cliffs, rising in the Old Peak, its southern horn, to a height of 585 feet. It owes its name to traditions of Robin Hood, whose arrows shot from the tower of Whitby Priory reached Hawker, 3 miles distant.