You might also want to climb the 199 steps leading to St Mary’s Church on East Cliff. It was up these steps that Dracula, in the shape of a black dog, leapt and where, at the top, hid in an un-consecrated grave. What look like benches at the side of the steps are in fact coffin rests. Also, at the top of the steps, don’t miss the beautiful Caedmon’s Cross, erected in 1898 to commemorate Caedmon, England’s first recorded poet.

Well worth a visit too is the exhibition of Anglo-Scandinavian carved stones at the Church of St Oswald in Lythe just outside Whitby and, a bit further on Wade’s Stone at East Barnby. If you’ve time to stop off at Pickering the superb medieval wall paintings in the Church of St Peter and St Paul there are a must see.