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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 | a town, a township, a parish, a sub-district, and a district | Imperial | SCARBOROUGH and WHITBY railway | a railway | Imperial |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 Hist. Gazetteer |
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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 | 0 | 2 |
Staxton | 0 | 2 |