Scarborough (GB)

Scarborough and its town office area

1904 Squared circle cancellation.

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Scarborough is a seaside town in the Borough of Scarborough in North Yorkshire, England. Scarborough is located on the North Sea coastline. Historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire, the town lies between 10 and 230 feet above sea level, from the harbour rising steeply north and west towards limestone cliffs. The older part of the town lies around the harbour and is protected by a rocky headland.

With a population of 61,749, Scarborough is the largest holiday resort on the Yorkshire Coast and largest seaside town in North Yorkshire. The town has fishing and service industries, including a growing digital and creative economy, as well as being a tourist destination. Residents of the town are known as Scarborians.

The town was reportedly founded around 966 AD as Skarðaborg by Thorgils Skarthi, a Viking raider, though there is no archaeological evidence to support these claims, made during the 1960s, as part of a pageant of Scarborough events.

A Roman signal station was built on a cliff-top location overlooking the North Sea. It was one of a chain of signal stations, built to warn of sea-raiders. Coins found at the site show that it was occupied from c. AD 370 until the early fifth century.

Scarborough recovered under King Henry II, who built an Angevin stone castle on the headland and granted the town charters in 1155 and 1163, 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 barons Percy, Warenne, Clifford and Pembroke. Gaveston was captured and taken to Oxford and thence to Warwick Castle for execution.

In 1318, the town was burnt by the Scots, under Sir James Douglas following the Capture of Berwick upon Tweed.

Scarborough and its castle changed hands seven times between Royalists and Parliamentarians during the English Civil War of the 1640s, enduring two lengthy and violent sieges. Following the civil war, much of the town lay in ruins. The coming of the Scarborough–York railway in 1845 increased the tide of visitors. Scarborough railway station claims a record for the world's longest platform seat. From the 1880s until the First World War, Scarborough was one of the regular destinations for The Bass Excursions, when fifteen trains would take between 8,000 and 9,000 employees of Bass's Burton brewery on an annual trip to the seaside.

Scarborough

The original Post Office was built to serve the harbour and its industry the building was on the Sandside road next to the Bethel Mission Chapel.

As the town grew it needed lager office to handle the mail volumes and a General Post Office was established on Aberdeen Walk in the town now larger area, nearer to the Train station that provided the main link for mail leaving town and arriving. The GPO building is now the Royal Mail Deivry & Sorting premises for Scarborough.

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1857 Scarborough 1d Red Die II Plate 31 SJ cover to London. Variety with double S

1904 Scarborough to New Haven, Connecticut. It was shortpaid so marked with T 15. The Opera-glass postmark in New York, Due 6 Cents.

Town Sub-Offices

Dean Road

==Falsgrave Road Telegraph code Scarborough F

North Marine Road

Telegraph code Scarborough A

Sandside Branch Office

Telegraph code Scarborough B

South Cliff Branch Office

Telegraph code Scarborough D

Outer Town Sub-Offices

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Ganton

GANTON Single ring cancel of 1903

Ganton is a village and civil parish in the Ryedale district of North Yorkshire, England.

It is situated on the south side of the Vale of Pickering immediately north of the Yorkshire Wolds. Ganton lies 7 miles west of the coastal town of Filey, and 9 miles south-west of Scarborough. It was historically part of the East Riding of Yorkshire until 1974.

The village appears in the Domesday Book and its name is thought to mean 'Galma's farmstead'.

From 1845 to 1930, the village was served by Ganton station on the York to Scarborough railway line.[5] An 18th-century coaching inn at the centre of the village has since been converted to a public house with bed and breakfast.