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Contact details
Carol & David Johnson
Tel: 01947 603118 or 0777 069 7226
Email: prospectvillawhitby@hotmail.com
Prospect Villa Guest House,
13 Prosepct Hill,
Whitby,
North yorkshire,
YO21 1QE
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A little bit of history
We believe Prospect Hill was named after the Ship—’Prospect of Whitby’ (a collier—square rigged vessel with
three masts and weighing 373 tons) which regularly sailed down the coast to deliver coal to the city of
London around 1777. Young (Captain) James Cook once worked on that ship as an apprentice.
In the centre of London is a pub named after the ship—Prospect of Whitby, which was very popular with
Samual Pepys and Samual Johnson (as well as a popular meeting place for villains and smugglers) who were
amoung several famous visitors to the pub. The pub was named Prospect of Whitby in 1777 after it was
rebuilt following a fire which destroyed the original building.
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