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type: estate-holding
id: whitby-rye-golf
name: "Whitby Castle / Rye Golf Club"
kind: estate
towns: ["Rye"]
era: "1853\u20131965"
cut: 1921
parcel_count: 151
street_count: 3
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# Whitby Castle / Rye Golf Club

The Chapman family built Whitby Castle in 1853. The Park family (Park & Tilford) held it next. In 1921 forty acres plus an adjoining estate became the Rye Country Club. The club failed in the Depression. Rye voters bought the property in 1964; the city took it in 1965 as the public golf club. Nearby streets sit on the acres that were not kept for the course.

Whitby is now a restaurant inside the municipal club. The house lot pattern around Oakland Beach and Rye Beach is the other half of that shore estate belt.

- Kind: Country estate
- Towns: Rye
- Era: 1853–1965
- Lots on the 2026 roll: 151
- Streets matched to this holding: 3

## Streets

OAKLAND BEACH AVE (Rye), RYE BEACH AVE (Rye), SOUNDVIEW AVE (Rye)

## Sources

- [Rye Record, Rye’s Historic Clubs — Part 2](https://ryerecord.com/ryes-historic-clubs-part-2/)

## Links

- HTML: https://daleledger.com/estates/whitby-rye-golf/
- Map: https://daleledger.com/estates/?estate=whitby-rye-golf
- Method: https://daleledger.com/guides/estate-beneath/
- JSON: https://daleledger.com/data/estates.json

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