Whitby Abbey
Burial place · School or library
abbey
Location: 54.4880, -0.6075
What this place is
- School or library — Hild's double monastery, where the study of scripture was required of everyone — and five of its men went on to be bishops
Who is recorded here
- Oswiu burial · AD 670
- Hild of Whitby death · AD 680
- Hild of Whitby residence
In art
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About the place
Whitby Abbey was a 7th-century Christian monastery that later became a Benedictine abbey. The abbey church was situated overlooking the North Sea on the East Cliff above Whitby in North Yorkshire, England, a centre of the medieval Northumbrian kingdom.
From Wikipedia, retrieved 2026-08-14 · CC BY-SA 4.0