Hinderwell
The Hinde (Battle) Well was there before the Romans came, built their road past it, and went.
Hinderwell still holds the shape of a typical Anglo-Saxon farming village of about the year 600, with its long narrow crofts, houses end-on to the road, back lanes, and the three huge common fields, like Newton field, now split into many.
In the 1600s Philip Scarth became a Quaker, built a meeting house and was heavily fined for his trouble.
In the 1800s rich ship owners like Addison Brown and Robert Porrit owned large farms. There was a smithy and a windmill. A surgeon, vet and a comedian lived at Hinderwell.
Chapel and church and the society of Oddfellows acted to protect, educate and entertain with parades, regalia and the brass band, sermons and dinner at 2/6d per head – a lot in those days!
Ironstone mining helped bring work with the building of Port Mulgrave by the industrialist Sir Charles Mark Palmer bringing his ships there to take iron to Jarrow to build battleships.
But the pubs of 1822-39 reflect Hinderwell's true character, The Brown Cow and the Shoulder of Mutton.
Hinderwell is a farming village with an annual horse show.

Staithes
The word 'Staithes' comes from the old Norse word 'stood' meaning landing place. The Vikings arriving around the year 800 would have made good use of it, being one of the few safe havens on the North Yorkshire coast. Staithes sprang into being around 1400 and is first mentioned in 1451.
In 1770 Methodism came to Staithes and Primitive Methodism a little after. Their church built in 1879 is now the Heritage Museum. Staithes now has three active churches.
By the early 1800s Staithes was the largest fishing port on the north east coast, affording shelter to ships in bad weather. A bustling village with ship owners, boat builders, a curing industry, everything needed to keep the ships at sea. Whole families worked together to earn a living, the men fishing, sometimes away for as many as five days, women and children collecting bait, preparing hooked lines and helping to unload the catch. Fish were auctioned at the quayside and were transported by packhorse to the markets.
This way of life ended with the arrival of the steam trawlers in the 1870s which could catch more fish than a fishing boat and were a lot faster, they also damaged smaller boat's gear and added to the over-fishing problems. Steam on land brought trains that initially put curers out of business; fish could be at market in hours instead of days.
However, trains also brought tourism into Staithes and as fishing declined, so tourism took over and today is the main source of income for this historic village.