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Scarborough District

Scarborough

Scarborough is a large resort on the coast in the north of England; it had a population of almost 62,000 in 2011. It has two broad, sandy bays divided by a headland, with confident Victorian hotels ranged above.
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  • Type: Town with 61,700 residents
  • Description: town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England
  • Also known as: “Scarborough, North Yorkshire”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Scarborough Castle and Scarborough railway station.

Castle
Photo: Stephen Montgomery, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a former medieval royal fortress situated on a rocky promontory overlooking the and Scarborough, , England.

Railway station
Photo: Adambro, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Scarborough, formerly Scarborough Central, is a Grade II listed railway station serving the seaside town of Scarborough, North Yorkshire. It lies 42 miles east of and is one of the eastern termini on the North TransPennine route; it is managed by TransPennine Express. and is also served by Northern Trains.

Stadium
, formerly known as Queen's, is a in Scarborough, , England. It is the home of Scarborough Cricket Club which hosts the Scarborough Festival and the Yorkshire County Cricket Club plays a series of fixtures in the second half of the season each year.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Newby and Falsgrave.

Village
and Scalby is a civil parish in , England. formed by the smaller southern area of and the larger, northern, area of . From 1974 to 2023 it was in Scarborough district. It has the status of a town council.

Suburb
Photo: Alan Walker, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is an area of Scarborough in , England. The settlement pre-dates the Domesday Book survey and was the manor which Scarborough belonged to.

Village
Photo: Humphrey Bolton, CC BY-SA 2.0.
, a village on the north edge of Scarborough, , England, is part of the civil parish of . From 1902 to 1974, was an urban district in the North Riding of Yorkshire. is situated 2 miles northwest of Scarborough.

Scarborough

Latitude
54.282° or 54° 16′ 55″ north
Longitude
-0.4012° or 0° 24′ 4″ west
Population
61,700
Elevation
157 feet (48 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB SCA
Open location code
9C6X7HJX+RG
Open­Street­Map ID
node 20629613
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2638419
Wiki­data ID
Q743521
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In Other Languages

From Afrikaans to Western Frisian—“Scarborough” goes by many names.
  • Afrikaans: “Scarborough”
  • Arabic: “سكاربورو (شمال يوركشاير)”
  • Arabic: “سكاربورو”
  • Armenian: “Սկարբորո”
  • Asturian: “Scarborough”
  • Azerbaijani: “Skarboro”
  • Basque: “Scarborough”
  • Belarusian: “Скарбара”
  • Bengali: “স্কারবোরাফ”
  • Bulgarian: “Скарбъро”
  • Bulgarian: “Скарбъроу”
  • Catalan: “Scarborough”
  • Cebuano: “Scarborough”
  • Chinese: “士嘉堡”
  • Chinese: “斯卡伯勒”
  • Chinese: “斯卡布羅”
  • Czech: “Scarborough”
  • Danish: “Scarborough”
  • Dutch: “Scarborough”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سكاربورو, شمال يوركشاير”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سكاربورو”
  • Esperanto: “Scarborough”
  • Finnish: “Scarborough”
  • French: “Scarborough”
  • Georgian: “სკარბორო”
  • German: “Scarborough”
  • Greek: “Σκάρμπορο”
  • Gujarati: “સ્કારબોરો”
  • Hebrew: “סקרבורו”
  • Hindi: “स्कारबोरो”
  • Hungarian: “Scarborough”
  • Indonesian: “Scarborough, Yorkshire Utara”
  • Irish: “Scarborough, Yorkshire Thuaidh”
  • Irish: “Scarborough”
  • Italian: “Scarborough”
  • Japanese: “スカーバラ”
  • Japanese: “スカーブラ”
  • Kannada: “ಸ್ಕಾರ್ಬರೊ”
  • Korean: “스카버러”
  • Ladin: “Scarborough”
  • Latin: “Scarburgum”
  • Latvian: “Skārboro”
  • Limburgan: “Scarborough”
  • Lithuanian: “Skarboras”
  • Luxembourgish: “Scarborough”
  • Macedonian: “Скарборо”
  • Moksha: “Скарбора”
  • Moksha: “Скарборо”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Scarborough”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Scarborough i North Yorkshire”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Scarborough”
  • Norwegian: “Scarborough”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Scarborough”
  • Persian: “اسکاربرو، یورک‌شر شمالی”
  • Piemontese: “Scarborough (Regn Unì)”
  • Piemontese: “Scarborough”
  • Polish: “Scarborough”
  • Portuguese: “Scarborough, North Yorkshire”
  • Portuguese: “Scarborough”
  • Romanian: “Scarborough, North Yorkshire”
  • Romanian: “Scarborough”
  • Russian: “Скарборо”
  • Scots: “Scarborough”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Scarborough, North Yorkshire”
  • Slovak: “Scarborough”
  • Slovenian: “Scarborough”
  • South Azerbaijani: “اسکاربرو، قوزئی یورک‌شر”
  • Spanish: “Scarborough”
  • Swahili: “Scarborough”
  • Swedish: “Scarborough, North Yorkshire”
  • Swedish: “Scarborough”
  • Tagalog: “Scarborough”
  • Tamil: “ஸ்கேர்போரூக்ஹ்”
  • Tatar: “Скарборо”
  • Telugu: “స్కార్బోరోగ్”
  • Ukrainian: “Скарборо”
  • Urdu: “سکاربرو، شمالی یارکشائر”
  • Urdu: “سکاربورو”
  • Vietnamese: “Scarborough”
  • Volapük: “Scarborough”
  • Welsh: “Scarborough”
  • Western Frisian: “Scarborough”

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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikivoyage page “Scarborough”. Photo: smileeyface1993, CC BY 2.0.