A MULTI-MILLION pound new project, designed to revitalise one of North Yorkshire's tourist honeypots, is to get the seal of approval from the Archbishop of York.
Dr David Hope will tomorrow open a new and architecturally innovative visitor centre, which has been built in the ruined shell of the 17th century mansion Cholmley's House in the shadow of the ruins of Whitby Abbey.
English Heritage said the completion of the £5.7 million Whitby Abbey Headland Project would give greater public access to the natural beauty, historic character and archaeological richness of the area.
The event will be marked by the opening of the visitor centre in Cholmley's House and the restoration of the rare 17th century cobbled garden courts in front of the house.
The new visitor centre has ingeniously been "dropped" discreetly behind the fine classical facade of the mansion house, which was built by the Cholmley family in the late 17th century.
Updated: 11:30 Friday, March 29, 2002
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