Yorkshire A to Y
Gazetteer
Scarborough former district — part of 
NORTH YORKSHIRE X
Scarborough Borough was the easternmost of seven now-abolished large district authorities which have been merged into a unitary authority of The Scarborough district covered around 315 square miles of the area now run by North Yorkshire Council, the unitary authority the Government has created from the former County Council which covers a massive area of around 3,085 square miles and more than 600 towns and villages.
As well as the seaside resort of Scarborough which was the administrative centre, the former Scarborough district covered nearly half the sea coast of Yorkshire, including the northernmost of its
On a section of the coast and inland is part of the
The wide area of the district, created in 1974, also included the seaside towns of Whitby and Filey and dozens of villages.
The population of the area is more than 109,000.
There are 39 parish and town councils within the Scarborough district. The Scarborough town area is the only location in the borough which does not currently have this tier of government.
To view our gazetteer of places across all the new North Yorkshire Council unitary authority see
NORTH YORKSHIRE Places in the Scarborough district were:
Ainthorpe Aislaby Scarborough Briggswath 
Brompton-by-Sawdon Burniston Castleton Cayton Cloughton Commondale Danby East Ayton Eastfield Egton Egton Bridge Ellerby 
Filey 
Flixton Folkton Fylingthorpe Glaisdale Goathland 
Goldsborough Scarborough Gristhorpe Grosmont 
Hackness Harwood Dale Hawsker Hinderwell Hunmanby Hutton Buscel Kettleness Lealholm 
Lythe Mickleby Muston Newby Scarborough Newholm Osgodby Scarborough Ravenscar Reighton Robin Hood's Bay 
Roxby Runswick Bay 
Ruswarp Sandsend 
Scalby Scarborough Scarborough 
Seamer Scarborough Sleights Snainton Sneaton Speeton Stainsacre Staintondale Staithes 
Ugglebarnby Ugthorpe West Ayton Westerdale Whitby 
Wykeham We continue to add more villages to our A to Y gazetteer and the above may not yet list all places in Scarborough former district — part of
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