Over the many centuries that the village of Baycliff has existed, the villagers would have paid their tithes to the rector of Aldingham...in fact the barn to be seen in the rectory grounds is probably the tithe barn from that era.
     History records that much poverty existed in the village. A workhouse was here which provided for the older parishioners and it was not uncommon for the orphan children to be put to work as parish apprentices...or sent to the mills at Backbarrow.
     Quarrying and mining of iron ore provided the work here. The carts of ore were brought down to the shore at Baycliff where the flat bottomed boats would take the iron ore to the furnaces at Backbarrow. Visitors will notice that the soil here is still red today from the ore.
     Two inns at Baycliff, one of them, the 'Farmers Arms', was run for almost 200 years by the Porter family.
     There are many lovely walks in this region...with rights of way clearly marked. The area is a great feeding ground for seabirds.