Whitby Abbey (Ruins) is a Grade I listed building in the North Yorkshire local planning authority area, England. First listed on 23 February 1954. A Early C12-C14 (ruinous church remains) Abbey ruins.
Whitby Abbey (Ruins)
- WRENN ID
- riven-moat-swift
- Grade
- I
- Local Planning Authority
- North Yorkshire
- Constituency
- Scarborough and Whitby MP: Alison Hume (Lab)
- Country
- England
- Date first listed
- 23 February 1954
- Type
- Abbey ruins
- OS grid reference
- NZ 903 112
- Coordinates
- 54.48838, -0.60719
- Source
- Historic England listing
Description
Whitby Abbey is a ruin founded around 656 by Oswy, King of Northumbria, with St Hilda as its first abbess. The abbey was destroyed by the Danes around 870 and later refounded for the Benedictines by Reinfrid, a soldier of William the Conqueror. The extensive ruins of the church date from the early 12th century to the 14th century. For more information, see 'Whitby Abbey' by the Department of the Environment, AM. NMR.
Local climate
Whitby Abbey (Ruins) receives an average of 890 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 66% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 73% of listed buildings.
It experiences an average of 14 freeze-thaw cycles a year, fewer than 87% of listed buildings. Of these, 9 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.
Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.
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