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Whitby bed and breakfast Accommodation

• 4 Star Quality Bed and Breakfast Accommodation in the heart of Whitby
• Recently refurbished bed rooms
• Wireless internet available
• Surrounded by local attractions
• Next to the seafront
• Walking distance from Whitby Pavilion
• Superb breakfast cooked by David

The Queensland Bed & Breakfast Accommodation(previously a hotel) in Whitby is a member of the British Travel Agents Accommodation Register and has a very proud record servicing the needs of the public, whether for that one night business trip in Whitby; artists and rambler groups, or the annual family holiday to Whitby.

We are ideally situated on the popular West Cliff in Whitby surrounded by bed and breakfasts and hotels, close to all amenities; the Spa Theatre; the Royal Gardens; Children`s paddling pool; Crazy Golf; Tennis; Pitch and Putt; Boating Lake; Beaches; Town Shops and the 18 hole Links Golf Course.

Whitby is dominated by the cliff-top ruins of a beautiful 13th century Abbey. This quaint maritime town, with its old cobbled streets, picturesque houses, loads of bed and breakfasts, hotels, and sandy blue flag beach, is set among fine stretches of coast with spectacular cliffs and bays 199 steps lead down from the Abbey to the old town where you find yourself in a shoppers’ paradise. Whitby has an array of unique shops offering local crafts, famous Whitby Jet jewellery, maritime memorabilia and antiques, you are sure to find that holiday treasure.

A selection of diverse attractions includes the Captain Cook Memorial Museum, Victorian Jet Works, the Dracula Experience and Whitby Museum, which offers a cabinet of curiosities from geology to jet carving, birdlife to bygones and costumes to clocks.

For food connoisseurs, Whitby in North Yorkshire has it all. As well as uniquely outstanding bed and breakfasts and hotels, Award winning seafood restaurants, continental delights, traditional sea-shanty inns preparing locally cooked produce and olde worlde English tea rooms serving freshly baked pastries and Yorkshire teas.

A little information about Whitby, taken from Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whitby)

Whitby is a town and civil parish in the Scarborough district of North Yorkshire on the north Yorkshire coast of England. Nowadays it is a fishing port and tourist destination. It is situated 47 miles (76 km) from York, at the mouth of the River Esk and spreads up the steep sides of the narrow valley carved out by the river's course. At this point the coast curves round, so the town faces more north than east. According to the 2001 UK census, Whitby parish had a population of 13,594.

Whitby was founded under its Old English name of Streonshal in 656, when Oswy, the Christian king of Northumbria, founded Whitby Abbey, under its first abbess Hilda. The Synod of Whitby was held here in 664. In 867, the monastery was destroyed by Viking raiders, and was only refounded in 1078. It was in this period that the town gained its current name, Whitby, (from "white settlement" in Old Norse). In the 18th century Whitby became a centre for shipbuilding and whaling, as well as trade in alum and jet.

Tourism and fishing now form the mainstay of the town's economy. There are rail and bus links to the rest of Yorkshire and the North East of England. Whitby has featured in literary works, television and cinema; most famously in Bram Stoker's novel, Dracula.

The modern Port of Whitby, strategically placed for shipping to Europe, with very good proximity to the Scandinavian countries, is capable of handling a wide range of cargoes, including grain, steel products, timber and potash. Vessels of up to 3,000 tonnes DWT are received on a routine basis at the Wharf, which has the capability of loading/unloading two ships simultaneously. 54,000 square feet (5,000 m²) of dock space is currently (2004) allocated for storage of all-weather cargo and a further 17,000 square feet (1,600 m²) of warehouse space is reserved for weather-critical goods storage.

The town is served by Whitby railway station which forms the terminus of the Esk Valley Line from Middlesbrough, formerly the northern terminus of the Whitby, Pickering and York line. Whitby is also served by the Yorkshire Coastliner bus line (which can take travellers to and from Leeds, Tadcaster, York, Scarborough, Bridlington, Pickering, Malton and many more towns in Yorkshire) and the Arriva bus company, which runs services connecting Whitby to Scarborough and Middlesbrough.

The town was awarded "Best Seaside Resort 2006", by Which? Holiday magazine.

The town's college, Whitby Community College was granted specialist school status in September 2002, specialising in Technology.

Whitby has a fish market on the quayside which operates as need and opportunity arise. The ready supply of fresh fish has resulted in an abundance of "chippies" in the town, including the Magpie Cafe which Rick Stein has described as the best fish and chip shop in Britain. There are also many establishments that serve fantastic breakfasts, from full english to continental.

Whether you are looking for a cheap place to stay (accommodation) or a cosy bed in a unique location or just a comfortable bed and scrummy breakfast in luxury surroundings (to hotel standard), the Queensland Bed and Breakfast Accommodation (previously a hotel) in Whitby is one of the best four star accommodation in North Yorkshire. www.whitbytouristinformation.com