Scarborough

Scarborough, a portand favourite watering-place in the N. Riding of Yorkshire, standing on a cliff about 300 feet high between Flamborough Head to the S. and Whitby to the N. The old town to the landward is connected with the fashionable modern quarter by an iron bridge, and is dominated by the castle dating from the 12th century. There are saline and chalybeate springs. As the only safe harbour between Whitby and the Humber, the port of Scarborough commmands a considerable share of the coasting trade and some foreign traffic, has three piers, a lighthouse, and a floating dock.