According to Bram Stoker's novel, in which British coastal town did Dracula come ashore?

The story behind the answer

Whitby is correct because, in Bram Stoker’s Dracula, the Russian ship Demeter runs aground during a storm on Whitby’s Tate Hill Sands. A huge black dog—Dracula in wolf form—leaps ashore and disappears among the gravestones of St. Mary’s Churchyard, marking his first arrival in Britain. Mina and Lucy are staying in Whitby at the time, which ties the town directly to the novel’s unfolding horror.

Stoker visited Whitby in 1890 and was inspired by the dramatic abbey ruins and local legends; he even found the name “Dracula” in Whitby’s library. Memory tip: Whitby is where Dracula makes his first British “bite”—Whitby sounds like “whit-b