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The Walkfo guide to things to do & explore in Staithes

  

Staithes Places Overview: History, Culture & Facts about Staithes

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Staithes history

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The name Staithes derives from Old English and means ‘landing-place’ It has been suggested that it is so named after being the port for the nearby Seaton Hall and Hinderwell. At the turn of the 20th century there were 80 full-time fishing boats putting out from the port.

Staithes geography / climate

Staithes has a sheltered harbour, bounded by high cliffs and two long breakwaters. A mile to the west is Boulby Cliff where alum was extracted from quarried shale and used as a mordant to improve the strength and permanency of colour when dying cloth.

Geology

Staithes is a destination for geologists researching the Jurassic (Lias), strata in the cliffs surrounding the village. In the early 1990s, a rare fossil of a seagoing dinosaur was discovered after a rockfall. This fossil has been the focus of an ongoing project to remove the ancient bones.

You can visit Staithes places with Walkfo Staithes to hear history at Staithes’s places whilst walking around using the free digital tour app. Walkfo Staithes has 19 places to visit in our interactive Staithes map, with amazing history, culture & travel facts you can explore the same way you would at a museum or art gallery with information audio headset. With Walkfo, you can travel by foot, bike or bus throughout Staithes, being in the moment, without digital distraction or limits to a specific walking route. Our historic audio walks, National Trust interactive audio experiences, digital tour guides for English Heritage locations are available at Staithes places, with a AI tour guide to help you get the best from a visit to Staithes & the surrounding areas.

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Walkfo: Visit Staithes Places Map
19 tourist, history, culture & geography spots

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Walkfo Staithes tourism map key: places to see & visit like National Trust sites, Blue Plaques, English Heritage locations & top tourist destinations in Staithes

  

Best Staithes places to visit

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Staithes has places to explore by foot, bike or bus. Below are a selection of the varied Staithes’s destinations you can visit with additional content available at the Walkfo Staithes’s information audio spots:

Roxby Hall Roxby Hall (or Rousby Hall) is a former manor house or castle in the town of Roxby, North Yorkshire, England. Only one ruined corner and earthworks remains in a field adjacent to St. Nicholas’s Church.

UK Dark Matter Collaboration The UK Dark Matter Collaboration (UKDMC) was an experiment to search for Weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) The consortium consisted of astrophysicists and particle physicists from the United Kingdom. Detectors were set up 1,100 m (3,600 ft) underground in a halite seam at the Boulby Mine in North Yorkshire.

Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks The Directional Recoil Identification from Tracks (DRIFT) detector is a low pressure negative ion time projection chamber (NITPC) designed to detect weakly interacting massive particles (WIMPs) – a prime dark matter candidate. There are currently two DRIFT detectors in operation. DRIFT-IId is located 1100m underground in the Boulby Underground Laboratory at the Bouby Mine in North Yorkshire, England, and DRIFT IIe is located on the surface at Occidental College, LA, USA.

ZEPLIN-III The ZEPLIN-III dark matter experiment attempted to detect galactic WIMPs using a 12 kg liquid xenon target. It operated at the Boulby Underground Laboratory (North-East England, UK) in the period 2006–2011.

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