Whitby: On the trail of Dracula

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We stand at the bottom of the staircase, the steps worn smooth from hundreds of years of use, wide, shallow grooves carved into the stone at the far edges by a million feet that chose the path nearest the thin iron handrail. On the right-hand side, as we stand at the bottom of the steps looking up, a broad, cobbled ramp follows the staircase's ascent, and this is known as the donkey track,