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From: WikiPedia
The original fishing village was almost completely destroyed by a landslide in 1682. Remarkably, there were no fatalities, as the village was alerted by two mourners at a wake. The village was rebuilt, slightly further to the south, perched on the side of cliffs.
The village ran its own lifeboat from 1866, until it was moved to the RNLI station at Staithes in 1978. The boathouse still remains, and has run its own volunteer rescue boat service since 1982.
In the late 1880s, Runswick Bay was the site of an art colony.
The village is located within the Parish of Hinderwell, which at the 2011 census, had a population of 1,875 people.
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