Henrietta Street, Whitby

At the end of the street the bottom of the Church Steps can be seen joining Church Lane (see link below)

Harbour mouth and piers from the Abbey Steps (HFF everyone)

The street has a colourful history, at one time associated with smuggling and prostitution. It was called Haggerlythe until 1761 when it was renamed Henrietta Street (for his wife) by Nathanial Cholmley who rebuilt the cottages in the hope of creating a street of desirable dwellings. This dream was never properly realised and in 1786 there was a large landslide and a great part of the street disappeared; although it was subsequently rebuilt there were other landslides, the last of which was in 1923.