It was a busy Bank Holiday weekend for the volunteers who respond to reports of seals being in distress. Overwhelmingly, it is disturbance by humans and dogs that accounts for the majority of the call outs. Juvenile seals regularly haul themselves out of the sea at night and use the sands of Filey Bay as a much […]

The recent rediscovery of an Elizabethan map depicting the defeat of the Spanish Armada, and the fund-raising effort to save it for the nation, allows us to tell the story of the battle that never was and one that would have put Filey Bay at the epicentre of world history. In 1558 Spain was the […]

The team behind the Spirit of Yorkshire Distillery at Hunmanby are celebrating winning two prestigious awards. Their Filey Bay Moscatel Finish whisky has been awarded a silver medal and the Filey Bay single malt a bronze at the 2020 International Wines and Spirits Competition. Now in its fifty-first year, the International Wine & Spirit Competition seeks to reward […]