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Situated in one of the most picturesque valleys in this part of the county, and spelled as Cidihoc in the Domesday Book, this peaceful view of the village street lined with well-built cob and

In June 1840, Thomas Cook arranged a members' excursion to York by way of the Leeds & Selby and the York & North Midlands Railways.

The ducks on this creek are well fed by motorists who stop to feed them from the coast road which runs in front of Bob Cooke's house (left), where he sold fresh bait and samphire, known as 'the poor man's

The village became Increasingly popular with visitors because of its proximity to Blackpool, but caravans and a holiday camp seem at odds with a village recorded in the Domesday Book.

A young James Cook started his working life here as an apprentice grocer, before the lure of the sea took him around the world on his voyages of discovery. Coastal Yorkshire

It was there that he started to write his most famous book, 'Dracula', setting much of it in Whitby. Alas! Before the crescent could be completed Hudson's fame and his money ran out.

This view looks north-east and immediately you see the contrast with most other villages in this book - this is a mainly brick built village.

William Gilpin became vicar here in 1777, and later wrote several books on natural history.

Sandwiched between the Town Hall and the Lopes Arms is Perkin's Pieces, now Wessex Books and Prints.

Following the publication of Jerome K Jerome's book 'Three Men in a Boat', the pastime of 'messing about in boats' became very popular in Victorian and Edwardian times.

Cookes next door was a printer and stationer selling postcards, and then came A G Metcalfe, a baker with café, and R S Corner, a confectioner.

John Brabin left money to build a school and pay for books and schoolmaster.

She used the Manor as an inspiration for her series of six children`s stories known as the Green Knowe books.

The Abbey was originally a preceptory of the Knights Templar, and is mentioned in the Domesday Book.

The amount of change since 1929 is surprisingly small, although Cookes the stationer's has become Austin's.

In 1841 Thomas Cook organised the earliest-known Sunday excursion with a trip from Leeds to Hull. The train comprised 40 carriages and carried 1,250 passengers.

Heating and cooking was performed on a coal-fired range, the chimney for which can be seen behind the tiller.

Dickens loved this house, and called it his 'airy nest'; it was here that he wrote David Copperfield. Today the property is known as Bleak House, after another book by Dickens.

The first stone church was erected soon after 1086 to cater for the spiritual needs of the families of the thirteen persons recorded in the Domesday Book.

Those who wanted an inexpensive holiday could book into Seaburn Camp, which even as late as 1960 looked like a German Stalag with flowerbeds.

Though camping was already enjoyed, Baden-Powell's book 'Scouting for boys' was published in the same year, and may have increased its popularity.

On the other side of the road is the church of St Andrew the Great, which contains a monument to the explorer Captain Cook, along with the graves of his widow and two sons, the younger of whom attended

On the other side of the road is the church of St Andrew the Great, which contains a monument to the explorer Captain Cook, along with the graves of his widow and two sons, the younger of whom attended

Now let out as 'honeymoon cottages' (fully booked for Valentine's Day 2003), they have a new lease of life.