03/05/21 - A Pilgrimage to the Whitby Brewery via the Cleveland Way Coast Path

Distance - 6 Miles

Walk Inspiration - Jarrold North Yorkshire Moors, Walk 7

Geocaches - A Dracula Themed Adventure Lab Cache 

When they come to read out my eulogy, I hope they don't say that I never took my family anywhere.  The first significant building found on today's ramble is the Whitby Fog Horn Station.

Accessing the Coast Path at the Fog Horn Station

To get there we have a couple of miles across farmland to reach more high cliffs on the Cleveland Way.  A simple walk back along across these to the Abbey.  

Easy Navigation Back

Entertainment Options Ahoy

After you've taken your fill of looking over the wall at the ruins (for no-one is going to pay to get in), fine entertainment is available directly opposite at the Whitby Brewery. In the strange half life that is the first set of easing of covid restrictions, there is a dearth of Whitby watering holes that have outside facilities.  We are on our 3rd failed attempt to get in the Little Angel. There is no way that Mrs M is going to queue to get in a Wetherspoons Garden that doesn't accept dogs. The Sam Smith's Plough keeps the strangest of hours.  

The Brewery has an ample beer garden and being out of town on the headland must make it one of Whitby's best kept secrets. Except everyone knows about it and with a first come, first served booking system, we had no choice to wait 30 minutes for a table. Queuing is tough enough at the best of times but try doing it when thirsty and forced to look at people enjoying their beers.

Once inside, there's a menu to work through.  The Saltwick Nab was a reasonable ruby ale, the Smugglers Gold a little forgettable and the Black Death Stout, easily the pick of the bunch - an excellent stout, with an ABV that had to be 6.66%.

You can't really go wrong in a tap room (beer garden) under blue skies.  Hats off to the hard working staff.

Successfully In

Now to work through their menu

Still desperate for entertainment? Well there's Fish and Chips at the Magpie Cafe and/or an Adventure Lab Cache that takes you around the sites that inspired Bram Stoker when writing Dracula.