Booking information

Trade admission prices and opening times:

Please refer to our Trade Admission Prices & Site Opening Times brochure for pricing and opening times information at our top sites for groups. 

Making a booking:

Contact information for making your group booking can be found in the Visit & Contact Information section below.

Please include the property name and date of visit in the subject line of your email along with the following information:

• Group name
• Name of property
• Tour reference/booking reference (if applicable)
• Date and time of arrival
• Number of visitors

Payment method:

Payment can be made on arrival by: cash, credit/debit card, Agency Voucher Scheme (AVS).

Visit & Contact information

• Coach parking: Parking and drop-off in Abbey Headland car park (charge payable to local authority). Passengers can also be dropped off at the front of the visitor centre.
• Catering: There is a café next door (not operated by English Heritage).
• Exhibition: Visitor centre displays fascinating finds from the Anglo-Saxon, medieval and Cholmley periods. This is packed with computer-generated images and entertaining interactives: touchscreens allow visitors to question Whitby personalities, from Abbess Hild via a medieval monk to Bram Stoker.
• Access: Features a wheelchair route of the site with ramps for access to the ruins.
• Average length of visit: 1.5 hours.

Address: Whitby, North Yorkshire YO22 4JT

Email: bookings@english-heritage.org.uk (Group bookings team)

Telephone: Whitby Abbey: 01947 603568 (General enquiries only)

Local TIC: If you would like information on other things to see in the area please call: Whitby TIC: 01947 602674.