Whitby Abbey — Streonshall — was one of the great double monasteries of Northumbria, where the Synod of Whitby had been held in 664 to determine the dating of Easter. It was the burial place of Northumbrian royalty and associated with St Hild. The Great Heathen Army, operating from its base at York after the capture of 867, sent raiders along the coast. Whitby was sacked and the community dispersed. The monastery did not recover for over a century and the great Benedictine house established by William de Percy in the eleventh century was built on the ruins.
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