A fashionable, beautiful and historic seaside spa, with fine ruins of an 12th century castle on an impregnable rock in which George Fox, the Quaker, was imprisoned for over a year. It twice resisted a siege during the Civil War. There are beaches to north and south of this headland on which there was also a Roman Signal Station. The Parish Church dates from 1180 and is one of the most beautiful in Yorkshire. Anne Bronte was buried here in 1849. There is a 14th century market cross. Art gallery, museums, aquarium with walkthrough tunnels. Good centre for touring the North Yorkshire Moors National Park.