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Whitby (recorded in the Domesday Book as Witeby) is a fishing port and resort at the mouth of the River Esk in North Yorkshire, England. It was an important ecclesiastical centre in Anglo-Saxon times and is the site of an abbey founded in 656.
Whitby is a village in Cheshire, England.
Whitby is a township in Bottineau County, North Dakota, USA.
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