When living in England for many years I often vacationed and stayed in Robin Hoods Bay. I was a keen hiker, and often walked to Ravenscar and back on the cliff top path. Yes, I was aware of the proposed town and agree that access to the non-existent beaches was probably a large factor in it's not being followed through. An exceptional area of Great Britain and well worth a visit. Now living in Tennessee, I miss those walks and English Pubs!
I found this on it.... Ravenscar, home to one of the best hotels near Whitby, is a village with a difference. The Victorian era was a time of great expansion. At the turn of the 19th-20th Century, new railways lines were being established throughout the UK, and Yorkshire was no exception. By this time, Scarborough was already a booming example of the new seaside resorts which were turning towns across England into prime holiday destinations, and it was thought that Ravenscar could be transformed into a place that would be able to compete against its neighbour for the custom of visiting tourists. The sleepy village - until this time known locally as ‘Peak’ - suddenly became a hotbed of activity, with roads, houses and even a sewage system being built in preparation for the great onset of visitors from the surrounding area and beyond. For all their grand plans, however, something the Victorian entrepreneurs behind the scheme did not take into account was the limits imposed by the rugged Ravenscar landscape. It soon became apparent to potential investors that the village could not, after all, be another Scarborough; the promised new railway line did arrive, but trains initially struggled to make it up the steep hills that characterise the area. The clifftop location - unsurprisingly - proved to be susceptible to strong gusts of wind, meaning that it would not have been the ideal spot for sandcastles and donkey rides!
Finances and fibs stopped it. They lied and said there was a beach, then expected people to build their own houses before the developers would build roads or utilities. The developers appear to have had no intention of building it, just to make money administering the sale of plots. Eventually everyone pulled out. Surprised the video doesn't just say it, seeing as it was made by the National Trust with the couple who discovered everything above and wrote a book on it. I think this video doubles as something of a teaser trailer for the book / website.
One hundred years from now, without sufficient records, some archeologist will be making up explanations as to why the "residents" abandoned the village and the "houses" disappeared without a trace.
I just found this in my recommendations, and thought that it was a Tom Scott video from reading the title. This is exactly the sort of video that fits Tom Scott’s channel perfectly. The footage is excellent and the story behind the place is very intriguing.
Wow that music is hauntingly beautiful. Stunning landscape but I'm biased I'm from the Yorkshire (the best place in the world)! where there is everything and the the people are so friendly. There is no where else in the world quite like it makes me so proud.
Great and very interesting video, used to visit Ravenscar when I was a kid with my dad, we would climb down the cliff to collect winkles, this was around 1966/67/68 .Remember one year the place was covered in flies, you couldn"t walk without standing on them.Good old days.
I hope we’re not referring to the myth of global warming, mainly referring to the excess undulating terrain and lack of decent access to good beaches and lack of harbor.🇦🇺
An excellent presentation! Living, as I do, in Whitby, Ravenscar is a favourite place for an afternoon walk. Fascinating to see it from the air, thank you...and I loved the music too 🙂
I lived in Middlesbrough in my youth and walked the N. Yorkshire Moors many times but I knew nothing about this. I knew the Falcon Inn but had no real idea of what lay beyond. I now live in New Zealand and am unlikely to visit the UK again so i would like to see more videos like this especially ones that are so well researched and imaged.
This came up in my TH-cam recommendations and I’m so glad it did. It’s a superb video that deserves more views. The clues to this failed real estate deal are all visible in the landscape.
What a brilliant video, credit to everyone that put this together. Fantastic aerial shots with brilliant bullet points of info. I loved the overlay of modern and historic map. This was riveting , mesmerising history at it's best 10 out of 10.
Take Beautiful drone footage, a great story and the perfect soundtrack, combine that with excellent editing and you create this stunning video, of shear delight to watch, I agree with others, it is SUPERB, the music choice was exquisite, and just makes this video stand out as one of TH-cam's Hidden Gems just waiting to be discovered and I am so glad I did, ADORED THIS. well done Skyshots
Outstanding! Great video, caption info and map overlays. Perfectly informs the watcher of all pertinent details. Superb example of how to do this sort of historical “docuvid”
An excellent video.I have camped in Ravenscar many times when walking the Cleveland Way.The village has a character of its own due to the empty wide roads and scattered Victorian buildings.
When the Scarborough road races were held i used to camp at one of the farms which had a three legged cat and we visited the Raven Hall hotel bar for a couple of pints, we also used The Bryerstone for meals and games of pool. When I took up mountain biking after a motorcycle accident I used to cycle the old railway between Whitby and Scarborough, I love this area of North Yorkshire as much as Redcar where I am from.
As a wee lad, I had several holidays in Fylingthorpe.We used to go Tom the outdoor swimming pool at the Ravenscar hotel, but we knew nothing of the town that never was until I learned of it many years later.
Absolutely loved this. I stayed in a holiday cottage every year at Ravenscar for about 20 years straight, it is a true gem. I absolutely love the place. It was only in the last 10 or so years I have become really interested in the history of Ravenscar and the "Town That Never Was" so to stumble across this when I was looking for Ravenscar videos was fantastic. The quality of this video is outstanding and having looked at your great website I have earmarked my plot to buy before Christmas. Thank you for the effort you have put in this and I look forward to reading the book and seeing how this interesting project develops.
Breathtaking film. I have walked the Lyke Wake Walk twice, from Osmotherley to Ravenscar. 45+ miles across the moors in 24 hours, by the time I got to the end I wasn’t in any fit state to take in the scenery. This has made me want to walk there again
2 and 1/2 years late to the party, but have to agree with all the positive comments below - fantastic footage and editing. Thank you for enriching my drab Sunday :-)
I live in a town called Lee-on-the-Solent down on the "Sarf Coast", this place was originally developed in the 19th Century by a man called Sir John Charles Robinson, the same man who promoted Ravenscar. He was a little more successful in Lee; perhaps the warmer weather and views over to the Isle of Wight (just 5 miles away) had something to do with it.
I agree with your opinion, here we are the 7th of may and still suffering freezing weather and snow storms and when the wind blows it's the last place on earth you want to be.
An outstanding piece of video production - informative, lets the imagination work on the grounding of solid information, first-class videography, and very good pacing of events. Thank you, from someone who is mainly interested in railways and remembers that railway in the years immediately after its closure - the late '70s.
@@EllieMaes-Grandad Thanks. You're right, of course. Bad grammar. I should have written ". . . and remembers that railway in the late '70s, not long after its closure", or something like that. Thanks.
Loved every minute of this, really professional, informative and interesting, I can well imagine there’s thousands of people from that area that wouldn’t of had a clue about the grand plans for a town. Thank you so much, really enjoyable.
Thanks, a mystery solved for me. Been going there since I was a toddler in the 50s and it always seemed strange. There was a beach at Kettleness down an old path. My grandmother liked afternoon tea at the hotel and I was last there in 2012 when my son left Fyling Hall School in RHB (we lived in Saltburn). A speculator's scam I think?
7:14 that plot 178 has bought 3 more plots around him and is a wonderful location for a house. I'm surprised given the lands previous approval for development that it has not been developed in more recent times.
I am from this area and finding any sort of information about this is so difficult, happening to stumble across a recommended video has enlightened me!
The name Whitby mentioned in the descriptions reminded me of the shipwreck of "General Carleton of Whitby" that has sunk in 1785 in the Baltic Sea close to the Polish coastal village Dębki. It has been discovered in 1989 and thoroughly examined by the Polish Maritime Museum in the years 1995-1998. Information on this wreck and some items recovered can be found here: theknittinggenie.com/2015/01/09/the-story-of-the-wreck-of-the-general-carleton/ This Wikipedia entry (in Polish) contains the names of the crew of whom only 3 survived: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Carleton
I visit regularly to watch the seals (from a distance). I must admit I always thought the landscape was unnaturally managed, and now I understand why. Wonderful video..
Absolutely brilliant video, drove past many times on my way to Scarborough. Next time I will definitely stop and have a good look around. I knew about the Alum and Brick Works. But not the proposal to build a town. Love this kind of history film. Well done.
Ah, the coastline and countryside around the Tyne & Weir area is absolutely some of the most beautiful in the British isles. Why is it not more popular? Because when it rains it comes down wickedly cold, and often horizontal with enough venom to lash the skin from your bones! But on the rare occasion you get a fine day there's no place more beautiful in the world. Absolutely worth spending years exploring if you're tough, or a few days visiting in the sun if you're incredibly lucky.
Going by other sale prices in the area, looks like it would barely hit £500k. Barely get you an entry level house back in London or the South coast. I'm just down the road in York. Wasted 4 years of my life in this Northern wasteland. House prices are cheap up here because no one with any ambition or goals wants to be here. Can't wait to get back down South to civilisation.
I have seen similar ares in the United States. Rio Rancho estates in New Mexico is one. (huge) I have also seen smaller ones where the money did not keep up with the dreams. The face that Ravenscar over advertised the fact there was access to the beaches would be a deal breaker for most people.
Land slides and receding is starting to speed up at an alarming rate. Roughly 3.5 foot receding a year due to the 0.5mm a year tilting effect from north to south of the uk.
This is very well done, I am no wiser as to why it never proceeded but its an interesting place. Rough guess it would be really cold in the winter. Greetings from Sydney Australia.
Wikipedia suggests: At the turn of the 19th-20th century, plans were made to turn the village into a holiday resort to rival nearby Scarborough. Roads were laid out, some houses were built and sewers were laid. Because of the long trek to its rocky beach, Ravenscar never achieved popularity, and the development was left unfinished - a town with sewers and streets but no houses. This would suggest that there were better options and cheaper still available. No where could I find mention of the sandy beach that alone would of been a big turn off for anyone who actually looked at taking up residents.
so why was it abandoned.?. erosion of the coastline? doesnt seem to explain fully.. but i would guess that would be a fair reason as its extremely close to the edge.
If anyone watching this has ever played the Playstation game 'Silent Hill', which is based upon the US 'ghost town' of Centralia PA, I think something similar could be created based upon this geography and state of dis-use.
i have worked on some of the properties up there, fixed a roof one winter to have to go back a few days later and fix even more after high winds took a heap of tiles of it ,also fixed the garage roof of the cottage to the south of the place on its own again due to high wind damage, its like a train hits you when it blows from the east so that might well be a good reason why Ravenscar was never built. Also what would the good people do for jobs?
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When living in England for many years I often vacationed and stayed in Robin Hoods Bay. I was a keen hiker, and often walked to Ravenscar and back on the cliff top path. Yes, I was aware of the proposed town and agree that access to the non-existent beaches was probably a large factor in it's not being followed through. An exceptional area of Great Britain and well worth a visit. Now living in Tennessee, I miss those walks and English Pubs!
Your welcome back anytime my friend
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This film is exceptional. Loved every minute. It is an absolute credit to you.
Thank you for your kind comments. It is a special place.
I found this on it....
Ravenscar, home to one of the best hotels near Whitby, is a village with a difference. The Victorian era was a time of great expansion. At the turn of the 19th-20th Century, new railways lines were being established throughout the UK, and Yorkshire was no exception.
By this time, Scarborough was already a booming example of the new seaside resorts which were turning towns across England into prime holiday destinations, and it was thought that Ravenscar could be transformed into a place that would be able to compete against its neighbour for the custom of visiting tourists.
The sleepy village - until this time known locally as ‘Peak’ - suddenly became a hotbed of activity, with roads, houses and even a sewage system being built in preparation for the great onset of visitors from the surrounding area and beyond.
For all their grand plans, however, something the Victorian entrepreneurs behind the scheme did not take into account was the limits imposed by the rugged Ravenscar landscape.
It soon became apparent to potential investors that the village could not, after all, be another Scarborough; the promised new railway line did arrive, but trains initially struggled to make it up the steep hills that characterise the area.
The clifftop location - unsurprisingly - proved to be susceptible to strong gusts of wind, meaning that it would not have been the ideal spot for sandcastles and donkey rides!
Lovely bit of piano music very very good
Finances and fibs stopped it. They lied and said there was a beach, then expected people to build their own houses before the developers would build roads or utilities. The developers appear to have had no intention of building it, just to make money administering the sale of plots. Eventually everyone pulled out. Surprised the video doesn't just say it, seeing as it was made by the National Trust with the couple who discovered everything above and wrote a book on it. I think this video doubles as something of a teaser trailer for the book / website.
A wee bit annoying that the video didn't make this point
Outstanding ! Drone work / editing and music . 10/10 .
Thank you for your comments. It really is appreciated.
Couldn't agree more
One hundred years from now, without sufficient records, some archeologist will be making up explanations as to why the "residents" abandoned the village and the "houses" disappeared without a trace.
I just found this in my recommendations, and thought that it was a Tom Scott video from reading the title. This is exactly the sort of video that fits Tom Scott’s channel perfectly. The footage is excellent and the story behind the place is very intriguing.
Wow that music is hauntingly beautiful.
Stunning landscape but I'm biased I'm from the Yorkshire (the best place in the world)!
where there is everything and the the people are so friendly.
There is no where else in the world quite like it makes me so proud.
If you exclude West Yorkshire that is.....
@@korky7775 Indeed.......and we all know why.
@@patagualianmostly7437 Indeed we do Alah...
Great and very interesting video, used to visit Ravenscar when I was a kid with my dad, we would climb down the cliff to collect winkles, this was around 1966/67/68 .Remember one year the place was covered in flies, you couldn"t walk without standing on them.Good old days.
By a look of the terrain it’s a lesson of where not to put a town. Absolutely breathtaking taking footage.🇦🇺
climate-change alarmists would disagree with you :D
I hope we’re not referring to the myth of global warming, mainly referring to the excess undulating terrain and lack of decent access to good beaches and lack of harbor.🇦🇺
@F. Hintze what i think is there is far too much bulllshit going on and far too many people just sitting back allowing it to continue
Travelled the railway line from Robin Hood's Bay via Ravenscar to Scarborough several times between 1958 and 1963.
An excellent presentation! Living, as I do, in Whitby, Ravenscar is a favourite place for an afternoon walk. Fascinating to see it from the air, thank you...and I loved the music too 🙂
What kind of miserable do you have to be to dislike this awesome historic video ??
Maybe the 6 people who live there? xD
the kind who can't watch it due to no closed captioning.
People who were hoping for some information about how come it was not built, rather than a 9:34 tease
If you've watched and read this far you know why it was never built. The word you're looking for IS investment SCAM.
Cycled from Whitby to Ravenscar and back on the old railway line last summer, one of the most scenic bike rides I have ever had !
i am so glad the town was never built. look at the beauty of the area!
I lived in Middlesbrough in my youth and walked the N. Yorkshire Moors many times but I knew nothing about this. I knew the Falcon Inn but had no real idea of what lay beyond. I now live in New Zealand and am unlikely to visit the UK again so i would like to see more videos like this especially ones that are so well researched and imaged.
Absolutely brilliant video, love the graphics and cinematography.
This came up in my TH-cam recommendations and I’m so glad it did. It’s a superb video that deserves more views. The clues to this failed real estate deal are all visible in the landscape.
Stunning footage of a wonderful village. The views from the dining room at Raven Hall are as spectacular as I have ever seen in any hotel anywhere.
What a brilliant video, credit to everyone that put this together. Fantastic aerial shots with brilliant bullet points of info. I loved the overlay of modern and historic map. This was riveting , mesmerising history at it's best 10 out of 10.
Take Beautiful drone footage, a great story and the perfect soundtrack, combine that with excellent editing and you create this stunning video, of shear delight to watch, I agree with others, it is SUPERB, the music choice was exquisite, and just makes this video stand out as one of TH-cam's Hidden Gems just waiting to be discovered and I am so glad I did, ADORED THIS. well done Skyshots
soundtrack is pure irritating
Yep, dont go overboard on the soundtrack. Boring at best.
That is a very peaceful and relaxing video. Thank you for sharing it with us!
Outstanding! Great video, caption info and map overlays. Perfectly informs the watcher of all pertinent details. Superb example of how to do this sort of historical “docuvid”
An excellent video.I have camped in Ravenscar many times when walking the Cleveland Way.The village has a character of its own due to the empty wide roads and scattered Victorian buildings.
When the Scarborough road races were held i used to camp at one of the farms which had a three legged cat and we visited the Raven Hall hotel bar for a couple of pints, we also used The Bryerstone for meals and games of pool. When I took up mountain biking after a motorcycle accident I used to cycle the old railway between Whitby and Scarborough, I love this area of North Yorkshire as much as Redcar where I am from.
As a wee lad, I had several holidays in Fylingthorpe.We used to go Tom the outdoor swimming pool at the Ravenscar hotel, but we knew nothing of the town that never was until I learned of it many years later.
Top notch drone footage and graphics, and excellent use of contemporary maps to show the "then" and "now".
Unsure why 65 people would thumb down such an interesting upload.
Thanks.
Beach or no beach, that is an amazing view.
Absolutely loved this. I stayed in a holiday cottage every year at Ravenscar for about 20 years straight, it is a true gem. I absolutely love the place. It was only in the last 10 or so years I have become really interested in the history of Ravenscar and the "Town That Never Was" so to stumble across this when I was looking for Ravenscar videos was fantastic. The quality of this video is outstanding and having looked at your great website I have earmarked my plot to buy before Christmas. Thank you for the effort you have put in this and I look forward to reading the book and seeing how this interesting project develops.
Thank you very much for comments. We appreciate hearing your feedback, hope you enjoy the book.
Breathtaking film. I have walked the Lyke Wake Walk twice, from Osmotherley to Ravenscar. 45+ miles across the moors in 24 hours, by the time I got to the end I wasn’t in any fit state to take in the scenery. This has made me want to walk there again
Wonderful photography and presentation!!! Thank you.
2 and 1/2 years late to the party, but have to agree with all the positive comments below - fantastic footage and editing. Thank you for enriching my drab Sunday :-)
I live in a town called Lee-on-the-Solent down on the "Sarf Coast", this place was originally developed in the 19th Century by a man called Sir John Charles Robinson, the same man who promoted Ravenscar. He was a little more successful in Lee; perhaps the warmer weather and views over to the Isle of Wight (just 5 miles away) had something to do with it.
I agree with your opinion, here we are the 7th of may and still suffering freezing weather and snow storms and when the wind blows it's the last place on earth you want to be.
And the beach was nearer, no cliffs, and there was sand at low tide if I recall. Haven't been there since 2003.
Looks like this is about to go viral, great work by the way!
An outstanding piece of video production - informative, lets the imagination work on the grounding of solid information, first-class videography, and very good pacing of events. Thank you, from someone who is mainly interested in railways and remembers that railway in the years immediately after its closure - the late '70s.
The line closed in the mid 1960s . . .
@@EllieMaes-Grandad Thanks. You're right, of course. Bad grammar. I should have written ". . . and remembers that railway in the late '70s, not long after its closure", or something like that. Thanks.
Brilliant film.
Loved every minute of this, really professional, informative and interesting, I can well imagine there’s thousands of people from that area that wouldn’t of had a clue about the grand plans for a town. Thank you so much, really enjoyable.
Breath taking scenery
Excellent video...one of the best in technical terms and interest I have seen on YT!
Very interesting never knew it was intended for a town thank you for the film .
Man... This was just incredible...
Thank you!
This is honestly one of the best videos I've seen on YT.
Fascinating beyond words...what a peaceful, beautiful place 💖
Outstanding production values. Well done!
Very interesting and well made video.
This is awesome and superb music very well put together, most of all very interesting such a shame this never went ahead
Thanks, a mystery solved for me. Been going there since I was a toddler in the 50s and it always seemed strange. There was a beach at Kettleness down an old path. My grandmother liked afternoon tea at the hotel and I was last there in 2012 when my son left Fyling Hall School in RHB (we lived in Saltburn). A speculator's scam I think?
0:30 Thats a prime piece of property in splendid isolation with a stunning uninterrupted outlook.....must be worth a few bob.
7:14 that plot 178 has bought 3 more plots around him and is a wonderful location for a house.
I'm surprised given the lands previous approval for development that it has not been developed in more recent times.
I am from this area and finding any sort of information about this is so difficult, happening to stumble across a recommended video has enlightened me!
What a truly excellent video.
The name Whitby mentioned in the descriptions reminded me of the shipwreck of "General Carleton of Whitby" that has sunk in 1785 in the Baltic Sea close to the Polish coastal village Dębki. It has been discovered in 1989 and thoroughly examined by the Polish Maritime Museum in the years 1995-1998.
Information on this wreck and some items recovered can be found here: theknittinggenie.com/2015/01/09/the-story-of-the-wreck-of-the-general-carleton/
This Wikipedia entry (in Polish) contains the names of the crew of whom only 3 survived: pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Carleton
Interesting. Normally Whitby is more known for the role it plays in Bram Stoker's Dracula ... :)
Excellent research and very well put together video.
Really interesting, thanks very much 👍
Fantastic video, having visited this wonderful place last year I was keen to learn its history. Thanks for bringing the town to life! Paul
So WHY wasn't it finished..?
Wow, stunning video. Been here so many times and never knew about these plans. 👍
Super well done!
What a fantastic film! Very informative and well edited too.
I visit regularly to watch the seals (from a distance). I must admit I always thought the landscape was unnaturally managed, and now I understand why. Wonderful video..
Beautiful pictures,What a beautiful place to live,Will they ever reopen the rail line,Cheer's bob.
My uncle?
Fantastic video, should have a hell of a lot more viewings.
Excellent video!
Absolutely brilliant video, drove past many times on my way to Scarborough. Next time I will definitely stop and have a good look around. I knew about the Alum and Brick Works. But not the proposal to build a town. Love this kind of history film. Well done.
Beautifully researched, photographed and edited, absolutely mesmerizing!
What a fascinating video.... glad it popped up in my suggested..... thank you.
Very interesting indeed. Loved it
What a beautifully produced and presented video.
myuu cracking bit of music and put together well,
I recall visiting Ravenscar many years ago. At the time, not knowing this history (till now) I thought the place was strange, like a place to nowhere.
Yes, I did too, in the late 60s. Walked down to the shore (I was maybe 16 or 17) but remember an abandoned bulldozer on one of the paths!
@@DrivermanO bulldozer sounds interesting, unfortunately it will now be long gone or converted to iron oxide.
@@CrusaderSports250 Of course, it was over 50 years ! Just thought somebody might have seen it or knew why.
Good looking video, nice views of the town from above. Keep up the flying and thank you for sharing
fascinating and so well presented. music was good and very informative.
*Ravenscar* ......... - sounds like a name of a heavy metal band.....cool 😎🤘🤘🤘🤘🤘
Ah, the coastline and countryside around the Tyne & Weir area is absolutely some of the most beautiful in the British isles. Why is it not more popular?
Because when it rains it comes down wickedly cold, and often horizontal with enough venom to lash the skin from your bones! But on the rare occasion you get a fine day there's no place more beautiful in the world.
Absolutely worth spending years exploring if you're tough, or a few days visiting in the sun if you're incredibly lucky.
Sounds like the Lake District! Every time I've been there the rain has only ever been horizontal!
Very pretty. Thank you. I particularly enjoyed the narration.
From the soundtrack I assume it wasn't built due to it being haunted and/or the site of a mass murder.
Superb video,I love ravenscar and its history
Brilliantly executed, beautiful photography.
Absolutely fascinating, been metal detecting in one of the field on the video, never realising that it was supposed to be covered in houses!
What a great informative vid 👍
I bet plot 178 would cost an absolute arm and a leg today.
No neighbors for over 100 years but view to the sea for £60. What a deal.
Going by other sale prices in the area, looks like it would barely hit £500k. Barely get you an entry level house back in London or the South coast.
I'm just down the road in York. Wasted 4 years of my life in this Northern wasteland. House prices are cheap up here because no one with any ambition or goals wants to be here. Can't wait to get back down South to civilisation.
@@1738Creations Crack on don't let us stand in your way.
@@1738Creations Crack on don't let us stand in your way.
@@1738Creations I'd rather have Northern soul over Southern 'civilisation' any day. Bon Voyage, this place isn't for you.
I have seen similar ares in the United States. Rio Rancho estates in New Mexico is one. (huge) I have also seen smaller ones where the money did not keep up with the dreams. The face that Ravenscar over advertised the fact there was access to the beaches would be a deal breaker for most people.
Land slides and receding is starting to speed up at an alarming rate. Roughly 3.5 foot receding a year due to the 0.5mm a year tilting effect from north to south of the uk.
A very well put together and very informative video thanks dude something else i learned today i did not know before 😁😁👍👍👍👍
Fascinating, thanks.
Really enjoyed this.
This is very well done, I am no wiser as to why it never proceeded but its an interesting place. Rough guess it would be really cold in the winter. Greetings from Sydney Australia.
A cliff top between the North Yorkshire moors and the North Sea? Yeah - wouldn't be the cheeriest place in the winter!
Ravenscar is the most "Town that doesn't exist" name they could have possibly come up with.
03:18 Low Peak National Trust Cottage was used in an episode of THE ROYAL.
Been there many a time,a fascinating place
Excellent video
Nice that the disused Alum Works got a mention!
I lived just up the coast and never knew anything about this!
Wikipedia suggests: At the turn of the 19th-20th century, plans were made to turn the village into a holiday resort to rival nearby Scarborough. Roads were laid out, some houses were built and sewers were laid. Because of the long trek to its rocky beach, Ravenscar never achieved popularity, and the development was left unfinished - a town with sewers and streets but no houses.
This would suggest that there were better options and cheaper still available. No where could I find mention of the sandy beach that alone would of been a big turn off for anyone who actually looked at taking up residents.
so why was it abandoned.?. erosion of the coastline? doesnt seem to explain fully.. but i would guess that would be a fair reason as its extremely close to the edge.
If anyone watching this has ever played the Playstation game 'Silent Hill', which is based upon the US 'ghost town' of Centralia PA, I think something similar could be created based upon this geography and state of dis-use.
Sunny Ravenscar, only 300 feet from the beach. Vertically!
Damn... now I want to live there......
Nice, that it was never built. Nice.
I stayed with wife and kids at Ravenshall Hotel many years ago and was never aware of the planned town there.
i have worked on some of the properties up there, fixed a roof one winter to have to go back a few days later and fix even more after high winds took a heap of tiles of it ,also fixed the garage roof of the cottage to the south of the place on its own again due to high wind damage, its like a train hits you when it blows from the east so that might well be a good reason why Ravenscar was never built. Also what would the good people do for jobs?