3834 x 2764 px | 32,5 x 23,4 cm | 12,8 x 9,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
2011
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Staithes is a seaside village in North Yorkshire, England. Roxby Beck, a stream running through Staithes, is the border between the Borough of Scarborough and Redcar and Cleveland. Formerly one of the largest and most productive fishing centres in England, Staithes is now largely a tourist destination. Staithes has a sheltered harbour, bounded by high cliffs and two long breakwaters. A mile to the west, Boulby Cliff is the highest cliff in England. For a brief period Boulby Cliff was mined for alum, a mineral used to improve the strength and permanency of colour when dying cloth. The mining operation was relatively short lived as a cheaper chemical method was developed. The ruined remnants of the mines can be seen from the cliff top when walking the Cleveland Way between Staithes and Skinningrove. Staithes is a destination for geologists researching the ancient Jurassic (Lias), often fossiliferous strata in the cliffs surrounding the village. In the early 1990s a rare fossil of a seagoing dinosaur was discovered after a rockfall between Staithes and Port Mulgrave to the south. This fossil has been the focus of an ongoing project to remove the ancient bones of the creature. Port Mulgrave remains one of the best places on the northern coast to find fossils of ammonites and many visitors spend hours cracking open the shaly rocks on the shoreline in the hope of finding a perfect specimen. Besides its human residents, known to other nearby villages as "Ringers, " it has a very large population of gulls and other seabirds nesting on the cliffs. The permanent population of the village has dwindled due to more than half of the cottages being second homes owned by outsiders from cities such as Leeds and York and further afield. During the winter, when there are fewer visitors, it can seem like a ghost town. Though fewer than half of the cottages in the old village are occupied by Ringers, the traditions of the village have not yet died.
