The A171 is a road in England that links the North Yorkshire towns of Middlesbrough, Guisborough, Whitby, Robin Hood's Bay and Scarborough.

After passing the village of Charltons, it rises up at a 15% incline through two 90° turns (the first east then the second south) up to Low Moor, this hill is named Birk Brow.

[3] The road then heads mostly in a south easterly direction out of Whitby bisecting Low & High Hawsker and then into open moorland again until it reaches the village of Cloughton where the National Park ends.

During the summer part of the timetable (which is the end of March to the start of November) the service, for most of the day, is one bus every half hour in each direction.

Three Hawker Hurricane aircraft of 43 Squadron, RAF Acklington shot down a Heinkel He 111 at Bannial Flat Farm just north of what is now the two A roads junction.