The Dock
Robin Hood’s Bay
North Yorkshire
YO22 4SJ
01947 880278

Traditional Village Pub, Pub With Rooms

The Bay Hotel in Robin Hood’s Bay on the Yorkshire coast is an imposing pub right on the “Dock” the local name for the harbour (photos 1, 2 & 3). The ground level public bar has attractive wood panelling and is mainly for drinking (photo 5 ). The upstairs bar has a separate stone-stepped entrance and offers proper pub food lunchtimes and evenings and good views of the beach and harbour (photo 4 ). It has an outside patio overlooking the sea which is great in the sunshine but a bit of a challenge at high tide on a windy day (photo 6 ).

A plaque on the outside wall marks the end point of Alfred Wainwright’s coast to coast walk and the public bar is named in his memory. Wainwright also has a beer named after him and appropriately enough it is one of the four cask ales on offer. The pub is hugely popular with crowds of tourists in the summer and the local RNLI shanty singers in photo 3 were entertaining on a busy weekend in July.

‘Bayfolk’ music sessions take place Friday evenings in the public bar from about 8.00pm.

The Bay Hotel was built in 1828 when the smuggling boom was coming to an end, but the previous inn on the site was key to the trade. Goods from here were moved up the tunnel next to the pub and via several secret passageways out of the village and onto the Salt Road across Fylingdales Moor. The tunnel featured in the first series of Villages by the Sea presented by archaeologist Ben Robinson.

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