Whitby, North Yorkshire

Captain Cook lived in Whitby for some time and the house at 16 Grape Lane where he was an apprentice has a plaque. There is a statue of him at the east end of North Terrace on West Cliff, the first statue of him to be erected. [Blue Guide]
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Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) spent his vacation from Oxford in summer 1854 at Whitby where he published his first two pieces in the Whitby Gazette.
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