Scarborough, North Riding : Historical writing

Descriptive gazetteer entries

These other entries in our collection of descriptive gazetteers are also about Scarborough. You may be able to find further references to Scarborough in the descriptive gazetteers by doing a full-text search here.

Place Type of entry Source
Scarborough parliamentary and municipal borough Bartholomew
SCARBOROUGH a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district Imperial
SCARBOROUGH and WHITBY railway a railway Imperial

This additional information from our descriptive gazetteers is for locations within the parish or parishes associated with Scarborough.

Place Type of entry Source
Falsgrave township Bartholomew
FALSGRAVE a township Imperial

Travel writing

This website includes the complete texts of books describing journeys around Britain, written between the twelfth and nineteenth centuries. Selecting one of the links below will take you to the first reference to Scarborough within the selected text. This will not always be a description of a visit: travellers often mention places other than where they are, for example as a basis for comparison.

Traveller Section No. of Refs.
Thomas Pennant July 4-17: Scarborough to Berwick upon Tweed 12
William Camden Yorkshire: East and North Ridings 3
Celia Fiennes 1697 Tour: Hull to Chatsworth 2
George Head North Riding 2
Daniel Defoe Letter 1, Part 3: Norfolk and Cambridgeshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 8, Part 4: Leeds and North Yorkshire 1
Daniel Defoe Letter 9: Eastern Yorkshire, Durham and Northumberland 1
George Head Tees-side 1
John Wesley 1760-2: Letter to an Editor; Impositions and Declarations; Speaking Statue; Pentecost 1
John Wesley 1777-80: On the Isle of Man; City Road Chapel; Wesley Visits Lord George Gordon 1
Thomas Pennant Appendix VIII: Itinerary 1

This website includes two large libraries, of historical travel writing and of entries from nineteenth century gazetteers describing places. We have text from these sources available for these places near your location:

Place Mentioned in Travel Writing Mentioned in Historical Gazetteer
Falsgrave 0 2
Deepdale 0 2
Throxenby 0 2
Newby 0 2
Osgodby 0 2
Irton 0 2
Scalby 1 2
Cayton 0 2
East Ayton 1 3
Forge Valley 0 2
West Ayton 1 1
Burniston 0 2
Suffield 0 2
Lebberston 0 2
Everley 0 1
Seamer 0 2
Hutton Buscel 0 2
Gristhorpe 0 2
Flixton 3 2
Staxton 0 2

Names from historical writing

The following appear as names for Scarborough. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name Author Source
SCAERBURG Thomas Pennant A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
SCARBOROUGH John Bartholomew Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
SCARBOROUGH AND WHITBY RAILWAY John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
SCARBORROUGH William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
SCARBRO Daniel Defoe A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
SCARBROUGH Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
SCARSBOROUGH Celia Fiennes Through England on a Side Saddle in the Time of William and Mary (London: Field and Tuer, The Leadenhall Press, 1888).
SCEAR BURG William Camden Britain, or, a Chorographicall Description of the most flourishing Kingdomes, England, Scotland, and Ireland (London: George Bishop and John Norton, 1610).
SCEARBURGH John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
SKARTA BORGAR John Marius Wilson Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

  • The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
  • Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
  • References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.