The Coast to Coast path enters Robin Hood's Bay from the east, leaving the cliff top above Dungeon Hole, where it meets the Cinder Track. You walk along a small cul-de-sac to the main road and turn south to descend steeply downhill, threading between a multitude of shops and bypassing many tiers of houses occupying various levels overlooking the main road, each connected by a spiders web of ginnels.

A path alongside the highest street level, named Esplanade, leads to a useful viewing area overlooking the prom and shore between Ground Wyke Hole and West Scar. The path provides a visual delight with further views sweeping across the Bay and the intervening Scars.

The shops straddle the main road all the way to the sea, packed densely with the village homes on upper street levels to the rear of the shops. There are a multitude of all kinds of shops, including those selling Jurassic Coast artifacts.

The Bede House, the actual address of which is The Crypt, Martin's Row, Robin Hoods Bay is a GV II Listed House with a separate dwelling on the lower floor. It dates to the 17th century. A plaque on the front door statees that the property dates to 1633. The property is listed as a registered charity

Tommy Baxter Street is one of the top tier streets in Robin Hood's Bay, on the east of New Road (the main road). The Street is little more than a narrow passage that ends on the cliff top overlooking Landing Scar, a coastal feature of Robin Hood's Bay.

Sunny Place is a crescent taking up two tiers of street levels and emerging onto New Road in the centre of the village. The walkway is cobbled and the descending steps in the Street's arc are steep in places.

Chapel Street is the first tier of housing higher than the main road. Chapel Street is the home to many holiday cottages.

From the main road you can look over a sandstone wall to see Kings Beck racing away towards an underground passage to empty into the Bay. The wide passageway would be more than sufficient for smugglers to make their way to almost any address in Baytown, and given that there were many underground entrances to houses, it would be very easy for them to hide. Robin Hood's Bay once had a reputation for smugglng.

Smuggling was rife in the 17th and 18th centuries, and Robin Hood's Bay was one of the most notorious of such places. Many of the village properties are connected by a network of ginnels and the Kings Beck's tunnel, passing below the houses, is wide enough to allow smugglers to pass along it. The Fisherman's Arms dates to 1680. Im 1779 revnue officers fell asleep in the cellar while sampling and guarding a haul of gin and brandy. The smugglers returned during their stupour and removed the contranand, causing immense embarrassment to the officers.

Coast to Coast Trail Guide

"Hiking the Coast to Coast" is a digitally enhanced eBook available from Apple Books for all people who have either a Mac, an iPhone or an iPad, and is designed to accompany you on your walk of the Coast to Coast path. The trail guide contains Ordnance Survey maps and other advanced mapping features, step by step directions, hundreds of colour photographs, details of the route, its conditions in different weather and research snippets relating to places of interest along the way.