if you fancy spending a few hours
getting lost in one of the prettiest
villages in yorkshire
then robin hood's bay is a must do
not only does it look like this and this
and this but it also has a fascinating
history as back in the 18th century it
was a hub for smuggling
we've just parked at the top of the hill
and now we're going to descend down into
the town
the view from up here is really nice
quaint stone cottages form a maze of red
roofs colourful doors
and quirky door knockers which is
perfect for aimlessly wandering
so that's what we did
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have we found a dead end okay
look how narrow this bit gets
look at this planter that's a canal boat
i love that
oh there's a campervan too
way do you want to go next it's so hard
to choose because it's really pretty
versus really pretty versus
really pretty which way to go next
okay let's go that way oh this really is
an amazing spot for a balcony
just imagine sitting here with a cup of
coffee in the morning
there's a sign here for a mosaic sea
wall gonna see what that looks like
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i think this next bit that we're coming
to is the main square
it's really small and cobbled oh
tea toast and post that's supposed to be
really good
ah closed supposedly a really good spot
for lunch though
now that we've shown you how lovely this
village is what about the history of
smuggling
this village is a maze of tiny narrow
streets that used to be perfect for
smugglers to slip through unnoticed
now it's just perfect for exploring and
getting lost
weaving through the twisted streets and
narrow passageways it was easy to see
how smugglers used to be able to sneak
away
feels like it's just getting narrower
and narrower
there are so many old cottages dotted
around that you can imagine they were
involved in assisting smuggling in some
way
during its peak it is said that around
one-third of people who lived in the
village were involved in smuggling
the goods most common this muffled were
alcohol tobacco and tea
and i read that at one point about 80 of
all of the tea that was drunk in the uk
was illegal due to smuggling
the goods were smuggled through the
villages in underground tunnels and you
can see the entrance to one
just over there the goods were then
distributed at the inns
the bay hotel which overlooks the beach
has been built on the location of one of
the key sites in distributing smuggled
goods
you can find out more about smuggling at
the national trust's old coast guard
station visitor centre
or robinhood's bay museum which was
unfortunately closed during our trip
have you seen there's an ice cream van
over there yeah i heard some guys
talking about
how you must have driven over there i
bet you know when the tide comes back
in so hopefully we might find some
fossils here because it's supposed to be
a spot for fossil hunting
sitting on north yorkshire's jurassic
coast at robin hood's bay beach you
could find fossils that are 160 million
years old
we read that even rookie fossil hunters
like ourselves could easily find
ammonites
so we spent the rest of our morning
searching through the stones
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what about that one
nope nope nope nope nope nope nope nope
nope
nope that's not fossil well that's a
pretty stone
present that one that one that one look
look look
fossil right yeah it looks like the
imprint of one
yeah imprint i'll take that that's close
enough yeah
oh yeah possibly
if like us you don't really know what
you're doing when it comes to fossil
hunting
there is a free dinosaur and fossil
museum back in the village
it may be small but it has a really
interesting collection
cool look at that one fossil crocodile
sorry it's super backlit but spinosaurus
too
you could just buy one and pretend that
you'd found it on the beach
the cafes were looking a bit busy so we
just went to maid marion's fisheries
instead and got what was this seafood
catcher of the day
yeah so there's some prawns yeah i think
this is some
card yeah squid rings this will be salt
and pepper
squid chunks yep and a gherkin
looks good
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robin hood's bay is the final
destination of the popular west to east
coast to coast walk
however if you don't fancy hiking around
190 miles to get there
then you might be looking for places to
base yourself for your trip
you could stay in robinhood's bay itself
although if you're looking to stay
somewhere with a larger number of
attractions
then you might want to look at whitsby
which is just six miles north of
robinhood's bay
this is where we stayed for our trip and
we have a video on different attractions
in whitsby coming up on this channel
soon
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