In 1841 the murder of Mrs Jane Robinson (née Wilson 1777) was one of the first cases in which an officer from Scotland Yard was sent to investigate a serious crime in the provinces.In 1596[5] the Venerable Nicholas Postgate, a Catholic priest and martyr, was born and lived in a humble home, now called The Hermitage, at Ugthorpe.For reasons which are not clear, he decided to base his actions in the Whitby area, possibly because he knew that priests arrived there from France.Reeves, with a colleague called William Cockerill, raided the house during the ceremony and caught the priest, then aged 82.[6] Every year since 1974 an open-air service has been held – alternately in Egton Bridge and Ugthorpe – in honour of Fr Postgate.