**A candid picture of a couple on the beach at Robin Hood’s Bay. **Robin Hood’s Bay, a charming coastal village located to the south of Whitby, was for many centuries accessible by sea than by land. The bay and its village were known as Robin Hood’s Bay from at least as early as 1538. Legend has it that Robin Hood (otherwise known as Robert, Earl of Huntingdon, shot an arrow from this bow, saying that where it landed he would build a home. It landed on these cliffs. However, another story tells of how the outlow, dressed in Lincoln Green, was chased here, and escaped by disguising himself as a local fisherman.