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Whitby Fish and Ship Festival

18 – 19 May 2019

Celebrate Whitby’s Fishing Heritage with Whitby Fish and Ship Festival

At this FREE Festival
Explore everything that’s special about the Yorkshire Coast’s magnificent maritime culture, from the building of its boats to its multi award-winning fish restaurants.

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Discover the North Yorkshire coast ………… in February

Dark Skies

Dark Skies

The festival season starts early in Yorkshire and there’s bound to be something to tempt you to visit the coast.

Those dark nights make the perfect backdrop for the North Yorkshire Moors National Park’s Dark Skies Festival (February 15th to March 3rd).  This year, the park has teamed up with the Yorkshire Dales National Park for the fourth annual festival.

A new exhibition in Whitby – Whitby and the Cosmos: The Search for the Dark Matter, which will trace the port’s place in understanding our universe.

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