For over a hundred years it has charmed visitors with beautiful views, a rugged coastline, charming cottages roofed with red slate, cobbled streets and sandy beaches. But locals in a picturesque Yorkshire coastal village say they are being priced out of where they live – with tourism to blame. Once a thriving fishing village – with the current population estimated at little over a thousand – Robin Hood’s Bay on the Yorkshire coast has been attracting visitors from the beginning of the 19th century.
Famed for the plethora of fossils to be found on its beach, and for its storied history as a haven for smuggling in the 1700s, there is much to attract the day-trippers. But locals say they are feeling the pinch from a surge in demand for accommodation that has sent house prices soaring. One woman who YorkshireLive spoke to earlier this year said she had seen the price of her house almost double since purchasing it in 2016.
READ MORE: The once-booming holiday resort loved by celebrities is now a derelict ghost town “In the last few years I can't see how local families can afford properties around here because the prices are so high,” said Becca Oliver, who grew up in the area and now works at a clothes shop in the village. “People from London or wherever can afford it but local people can't. "It's pushing people out and it's worrying in terms of the school and things like that.
Are we going to lose those sorts of things?” (Image: Peter Harbour - Yorkshire Live) Anot.