On either side of you a village clings to the cliffside, defying gravity. Cobbled streets in Robin Hood Bay Robin's Hood Bay has operated as a village under various aliases. Nothing exists in fact to determine where its name really came from.
Red pantiles decorate the roofs of stone cottages.
A stream runs through a ravine in the middle of the village to the sea below. Shops, cafes, pubs and small cottages cling precariously to the sides of the cliff. The Laurel Inn has a bar carved from solid rock. Viking raiders settled here. Fifty fishermen lived here in 1536, and the catching and drying of fish was a thriving industry-130 fishermen worked here until the end of the 19th century.