6 Rosedale Abbey
Pickering, Y018 8RA
North Yorkshire, UK
I hope you get to visit Robin Hood's Bay for a day out at the seaside while you're enjoying the splender of the North York Moors around Rosedale Abbey.
Robin Hood's Bay is certainly one of the favourite places we like to visit when we holiday in Rosedale ourselves.
And each time we visit, I'm always struck by a plaque at bank top above the village which illustrates what a soft and flabby lot we've become these days.
When you're there, look out for the plaque - it tells a magnificant story. It reads:
On the 18th January 1881 the brig ‘Visitor’ ran ashore in Robin Hood’s Bay.
No local boat could be launched on account of the vioence of the storm, so the Whitby lifeboat was brought overland past this point – a distance of 6 miles through snowdrifts 7 feet deep on a road rising to 500 feet, with 200 men clearing the way ahead and 18 horses heaving at the tow lines, whilst men worked uphill towards them from the Bay.
The lifeboat was launched two hours after leaving Whitby and at the second attempt the crew of the Visitor were saved.
So that future generations may remember the bravery of the Coxswain Henry Freeman and the lifeboatmen, and the dogged determination of the people of Whitby, Hawsker and Robin Hood’s Bay, who overcame such difficulties, this memorial was erected in 1981.
10 Rose & Crown Yard
Off Flower Gate, Whitby
North Yorkshire, Y021 3BE