ROBIN HOOD’S BAY is a village in the parish of Fylingdales, within half a mile of the parish church, 6 miles south-east from Whitby, on the shore of the North sea, with a station on the Whitby and Scarborough branch of the North Eastern railway. The village, which is lighted with gas, occupies the summit of a lofty and precipitous cliff, some of the houses almost overhanging it; at the close of the last century a portion of the cliff gave way and destroyed a great part of the principal street, but since then a new road has been made through the adjoining valley, and many substantial houses have been erected. The whole scenery here is wild and picturesque in the extreme, and the heights afford fine sea views; the sands are firm and level, but are covered at high water. The Wesleyan chapel here, erected in 1779, is a building of local stone, and will seat 400 persons. Here is also a Congregational chapel, erected in 1840, which has 400 sittings. There were formerly alum works on this coast. The population is given with Fylingdales.