The ruins of the 13th century Whitby Abbey was once a monastery that Abbess Hilda founded in 657 for men and women sacked by Vikings in 870, then rebuilt in the 11th century as a Benedictine Abbey, Whitby, Yorkhsire, England.
The ruins of the 13th century Whitby Abbey was once a monastery that Abbess Hilda founded in 657 for men and women sacked by Vikings in 870, then rebuilt in the 11th century as a Benedictine Abbey, Whitby, Yorkhsire, England.