A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
STAITHES, a village in Easington parish, N. R. Yorkshire; on the coast, 10 miles NW of Whitby. It has a post-office‡ under Redcar, a coastguard station, and an Independent chapel; and it was the place where the circumnavigator Cook was apprenticed to a grocer.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a village" (ADL Feature Type: "populated places") |
| Administrative units: | Yorkshire AncC |
| Place: | Staithes |
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