Lying equidistant between Cumbria's two largest settlements, Carlisle and Barrow-in-Furness, is Whitehaven - a small Georgian town and port on the coast of Cumbria, England. Among the tourist attractions here, you will see The Beacon - a symbol of the coal mining & ship building history here, The Rum Story – the Dark Spirit of Whitehaven, a story of the UK’s rum trade which originally centred on the port of Whitehaven. You will also see here the Haig Colliery Mining Museum, Whitehaven Harbour, Whitehaven St Nicholas Church Tower.