Scarborough
Blue Bank occupies a wooded escarpment on the northern edge of the North York Moors in North Yorkshire. The A169 climbs here between Pickering and Whitby, crossing a rural belt of pasture, dry-stone walls and woodland before it reaches the coast near Whitby. The surrounding moorland forms part of the North York Moors National Park, designated in 1952, one of England’s largest expanses of heather moor. Though this stretch is removed from Scarborough’s seafront, it belongs to the wider Yorkshire coast-and-moor country, where steep roads connect inland market towns with the fishing port and abbey town of Whitby. Blue Bank captures the quieter, agricultural side of this region.
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