Robin Hood's Bay, N. Yorkshire - boats, phone box etc - Denis postcard 1970s

Postcard
• Picture / Image:  Robin Hood's Bay
• Publisher:  Dennis W.0716
• Postally used:  no
• Stamp:  n/a
• Postmark(s): n/a
• Sent to:  n/a
• Notes / condition:  small light crease

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Text from the free encyclopedia WIKIPEDIA may appear below to give a little background information (internal links may not  work) :

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Robin Hood’s Bay is a small fishing village and a bay located five miles south of Whitby and 15 miles north of Scarborough on the coast of North Yorkshire, England. Bay Town, its local name, is in the ancient chapelry of Fylingdales in the wapentake of Whitby Strand.

The origin of the name is uncertain, and it is doubtful if Robin Hood was ever in the vicinity. An English ballad and legend tell a story of Robin Hood encountering French pirates who came to pillage the fisherman's boats and the northeast coast. The pirates surrendered and Robin Hood returned the loot to the poor people in the village that is now called Robin Hood's Bay.

By about 1000 the neighbouring hamlet of Raw and village of Thorpe (Fylingthorpe) in Fylingdales had been settled by Norwegians and Danes. After the Norman Conquest in 1069 much land in the North of England, including Fylingdales, was laid waste. William the Conqueror gave Fylingdales to Tancred the Fleming who later sold it to the Abbot of Whitby.^[1] The earliest settlements were about a mile inland at Raw but by about 1500 a settlement had grown up on the coast. ""Robin Hoode Baye"" was first mentioned by Leland in 1536 who described it as,^[2]

""A fischer tounlet of 20 bootes with Dok or Bosom of a mile yn length.""^[3]

In the 16th century Robin Hood's Bay was a more important port than Whitby, it is described by a tiny picture of tall houses and an anchor on old North Sea charts published by Waghenaer in 1586 and now in Rotterdam's Maritime Museum.^[4] After the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1540, Whitby Abbey and its lands became the property of King Henry VIII with King Street and King’s Beck dating from this time.^[5]

type=printed postcards

theme=topographical: british

sub-theme=england

county/ country=yorkshire

number of items=single

period=1945 - present

postage condition=unposted