The seaside manor house has spacious guest rooms and plantation-style hardwood furniture.

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Whitby in North Yorkshire has been named as the most expensive seaside town in which to buy a house in the north of England.

BBC: Whitby skyline

The ridiculous plot unfolds at a remote seaside house in an unnamed Latin American country.

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But the house was deep in the country, with no other house in sight, and the children had been in London for two years, without so much as once going to the seaside even for a day by an excursion train, and so the White House seemed to them a sort of Fairy Palace set down in an Earthly Paradise.

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The majority of seaside towns in Wales, East Anglia and the South West have an average house price that is higher than the surrounding area.

BBC: Whitby skyline

Halifax said seaside properties within Yorkshire and the Humber were cheaper than the average house price in those counties.

BBC: Whitby skyline

At each end of the cable is a landing station, around the size of a large house, often tucked away inconspicuously in a quiet seaside neighborhood.

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