A PROJECT to record and translate Whitby's medieval history has been given funding by a regeneration scheme.
Much of the information was collated about 15 years ago by Rosalin Barker, secretary of the Friends of Whitby Abbey, with the help of students from the history classes she taught.
Now there are 900 pages of text, all of which are to be recorded on a CD thanks to a grant from the Whitby Regeneration Partnership.
Among the information contained in the study are details of a Christmas party held by Henry III at Whitby Abbey.
"It reveals that a massive 2,560 gallons of claret was sent for the celebration," said Mrs Barker. "In the Middle Ages Whitby was the second richest town in Yorkshire. It was virtually a frontier town as the border of Scotland at that time was the River Tees.
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