Whitby West Cliff top is dominated by Whitby hotels, guest houses, holiday accommodation and tourist attractions. George Hudson ‘The Railway King’, who was instrumental in bringing the rail link to Whitby, had the Khyber Pass (named after a strategic pass in the Afghan wars) built into the cliff to provide access to his West cliff estates which he acquired in the 1850’s. George Hudson wished to emulate Bath, with its tourist trade, and commissioned a builder named Langdale, to build a ‘crescent’ and street houses on the estate.
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