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Scarborough Castle is a former medieval royal fortress situated on a rocky promontory overlooking the North Sea and Scarborough, North Yorkshire, England. [1] The site of the castle, encompassing the Iron Age settlement, Roman signal station, an Anglo-Scandinavian settlement and chapel, the 12th-century enclosure castle and 18th-century battery, is a scheduled monument of national importance.
There are over 20,000 Grade II* listed buildings in England.This page is a list of 384 buildings in the unitary authority area of North Yorkshire.. As there are 536 Grade II* listed buildings in the district, the 152 churches and chapels are instead detailed in the article Grade II* listed churches in North Yorkshire (district).
Scarborough recovered under King Henry II, who built an Angevin stone castle on the headland and granted the town charters in 1155 and 1163, [14] permitting a market on the sands and establishing rule by burgesses. Edward II granted Scarborough Castle to his favourite, Piers Gaveston. The castle was subsequently besieged by forces led by the ...
Smith came to Scarborough after his release from debtors' prison. The dramatic Jurassic coastline of Yorkshire offered him an area of geological richness. Sir John Johnstone became Smith's patron and employed him as his land steward at Hackness. Johnstone was president of the Scarborough Philosophical Society, which raised the money to build ...
The Great Siege of Scarborough Castle [a] was a major conflict for control of one of England's most important stone fortresses during the First English Civil War fought between the Parliamentarians and the Royalists loyal to King Charles I. In February 1645, Parliamentarians laid siege to Scarborough Castle.
Falsgrave is an area of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, England.The settlement pre-dates the Domesday Book survey and was the manor which Scarborough belonged to. Gradually the settlements importance inverted, the area now a south west continuation of shops from the town centre street of Westborough.
The Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby on 16 December 1914 was an attack by the Imperial German Navy on the British ports of Scarborough, Hartlepool, West Hartlepool and Whitby. The bombardments caused hundreds of civilian casualties and resulted in public outrage in Britain against the German Navy for the raid and the Royal Navy for ...
Scarborough Castle; Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby This page was last edited on 16 November 2017, at 23:20 (UTC). Text is available under the ...