Whitby Snow Globe 199 steps and Whitby Abby at sunset. Free UK shipping. Large plastic snow globe with two different photographic prints inside. Whitby Snow Globe. Whitby 199 steps and Whitby Abby at sunset. The front photograph is taken, looking down the 199 steps from the abby down to the piers in the distance at sunset.
The reverse photograph is of a floodlit Whitby Abby at twilight. The warm orange, floodlit Abby, really stands out against the light, pale blue of the sky in this photograph.
The ruins of Whitby Abbey crown a clifftop over the historic fishing port of Whitby. The headland has hosted St Hild’s Anglo-Saxon monastery, the great medieval abbey and a Stuart mansion, and it’s long been the focus of myths and legends.
You can find out more about the headland’s people and stories in the big Whitby Abbey museum, packed with objects and stories. Listening posts, peep-holes and animations tell the headland’s many tales: how St Hild turned snakes to stone, how Anglo-Saxon Caedmon became a poet, how the lost abbey bells are still heard beneath the waves, and how a real shipwreck helped inspire Dracula, which in turn has made Whitby the ‘Goth capital’ of England.
The Whitby 199 steps (also known as The Church Stairs and Jacob’s Ladder) is a grade I listed structure between the Old Town and St Mary’s Church, in Whitby, North Yorkshire, England. The 199 steps have been recorded since at least 1370, and until the 1770s, were made of wood. The flight of steps was viewed as a measure of the Christian determination of pilgrims going up to Whitby Abbey (and later, the church), and have also served as a tourist attraction, being mentioned in the book Dracula, by Bram Stoker.
Whitby Snow Globe 199 steps and Whitby Abby at sunset, is 90mm wide x 80mm deep ( 3.5 inches x 3 inches) The snow globe comes wrapped in a bubble wrap bag and a card gift box, with a gift tag included. The snow globes have lots of snow inside.
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