Work on the current abbey began in 1078 on the site of a much older Anglo Saxon abbey that had been deserted for over 200 years.
Whitby Abbey, left empty for hundreds of years thanks to the Dissolution of the Monasteries started to collapse in 1762 when the great nave fell to pieces and continued to fall in until restoration began in the 1920s. By then the central tower had also collapsed.
Whitby Abbey features extensively in Bram Stokers Dracula and has become perhaps the ultimate in creepy gothic ruins. Lucy met Dracula in the graveyard.
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