Ugthorpe is a village and civil parish in the Scarborough borough, situated near Whitby, North Yorkshire, England.

[3] In 1596,[4] Blessed Nicholas Postgate, a Catholic priest and martyr, was born and lived in a humble home, now called The Hermitage, at Ugthorpe.

He is one of the 85 English Catholic Martyrs of England and Wales beatified by Pope John Paul II in November 1987.

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.

[5] Every year since 1974 an open-air service has been held – alternately in Egton Bridge and Ugthorpe – in honour of Fr Postgate.

[7] Early in the 19th century, while the anti-Catholic Penal Laws were still in effect, Ugthorpe was the location of a mission for Catholic Recusants.