About Sandsend Notes

Sandsend Notes is a reading guide to one stretch of the North Yorkshire coast: from Staithes in the north to Robin Hood's Bay in the south, with Sandsend and Whitby between them, and the moor edge behind.

What this site is

It is a notebook, written at a desk. Each note takes one place, one trade or one route, sets out what it is, what happened there and what a reader will find, and then stops. The notes are written in British English, dated with the day the work was done, and revised rather than replaced when something turns out to be wrong.

What it does not do

This site sells nothing and books nothing. It does not rank places to eat or sleep, does not carry advertising, and does not accept payment for a mention. Where a note describes a trade or a building, it describes the thing itself, not a business currently using it.

Where the material comes from

Every note lists the public reference sources it leans on, with the date they were read. Those sources are general reference articles on the villages, the industries and the railway lines, not field visits: this site claims no first hand survey and no exclusive data. Where a source disagrees with another, the note says so instead of picking the tidier version.

Corrections

Local knowledge beats a reference article, and this coast has plenty of both. If a note gets a date, a distance, a name or a method wrong, write to the desk from the contact page and the page will be corrected with the correction noted.