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Whitby's Church Street is the oldest part of the town.
Whitby in North Yorkshire depicts many eras of English history, going all the way back to Anglo-Saxon times all the way through to its development into a shipping port in the 17th century.
Its appeal to a lot of tourists especially the more cultivated element, is the fact that it is very much different from most other seaside resorts in this area. There is no getting away from the fact that it has a unique type of charm due to its lack of artificial development over recent years.
It is rumoured that Alfred Tennyson when he was married at every intention to move to Whitby and in actual fact come to the town to choose a property to live in.
Alfred approached the chairman of the local authority to assist him, the street commissioners but unfortunately they were not open to assisting him which left him with a rather cold feeling of reception. At that point the future peer is said to have gone for lunch and unfortunately the beefsteak was not of good quality and whatever consistency of leather. So the overall combination of factors deprive Whitby of this great literary Association and also prevented Whitby from bathing in the glory of "Idylls of the King" being written in Whitby.
There are many old streets in Whitby, the oldest is Church Street which in olden times used stretch from the town all to the Seamen's hospital were officially the town ended. It's named Church Street applies to it starting at the church stairs and going all the way through to Spittle Bridge. So in actual fact Church Street going back to 1318 A.D, was a very short street which basically only extended from the bottom of the church stairs through to the marketplace. Since then it has obviously spread out and now continues out of the town along the side of the harbour.
Very close to the Market Square on Church Street there is the Black Bull house which was formally the Black Bull Inn.
At the very end of Church Street by the steps coming down from the church you find Henrietta Street, which was in 1270 A.D. called Haggerlythe, which was named after Henrietta the wife of Nathaniel Cholmley Esq. in 1761. During these times it was considered a very desirable residential area and had approximately 130 houses.
A great percentage of these properties unfortunately disappeared in 1787 when there was an enormous landslide, which caused many of the local families to be homeless. One of the buildings which disappeared was Wesleyan Chapel which was an octagonal building and features on some of the old prints of Whitby. There was a second landslide in 1870 which destroyed 12 more houses and all the way through to 1923 things were fairly stable around Henrietta Street when unfortunately during that year during March there was another land movement which had in some ways been threatening to happen for years.
Henrietta Street is now one of the most sought-after areas far Whitby holiday cottages, with its cobbled old street and views over the harbour.
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