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More than 5000 entries on the history, culture and life of Britain (published in 1993 by Macmillan, now out of print)
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Whitby
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(14,000 in 1991) Fishing port in North Yorkshire with an abbey, founded in 656, in which the poet *Caedmon was a monk in his old age. The present ruins are those of an abbey church built in the 13C. The town was the location in 664 of the *Synod of Whitby.
Images of the place and its inhabitants around the turn of the century have become widely known through the camera of a local photographer, Frank M. Sutcliffe (1853–1941). He set up a photographic studio in Whitby in 1875 and worked in the town until his retirement in 1922. His negatives are now in Whitby's Sutcliffe Gallery.
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