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Dracula Walking Tour
Yorkshire

Follow Count Dracula ashore, from the pier where his ship ran aground to the clifftop churchyard where he claimed his first victims in England.

7 stops · 1.6 km

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Every Stop Has a Story

Stoker's Summer Lodgings

Bram Stoker lodged in this house in the summer of 1890, the same summer he found the name Dracula in a book at Whitby's library.

Stoker's View

Dedicated on the 68th anniversary of Bram Stoker's death, this seat looks across the harbour to the East Cliff, where the Whitby chapters of Dracula unfold.

Mina's Midnight Run

Mina Murray raced across Whitby's bridge to rescue the sleepwalking Lucy, though the swing bridge here today replaced that one in 1909, twelve years after Dracula was published.

The Demeter Runs Aground

Count Dracula's ship runs aground beside this pier in the novel, inspired by a real Russian ship that was wrecked on these sands in 1885.

The Count's Climb

Mina Murray climbs these steps in Dracula without ever counting them, writing only that "there are hundreds of them," though there are exactly 199.

The Suicide's Seat

Bram Stoker borrowed the name Swales from a headstone in this churchyard for the old sailor who is found dead on Mina and Lucy's favourite seat.

A Most Noble Ruin

The abbey ruin that Mina Murray calls "a most noble ruin" took direct hits from German battlecruisers in 1914, which destroyed much of its west front.

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