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Scarborough Castle

It almost seems an anachronism that, during the First World War, a German battleship shelled the old ruins of Scarborough Castle, but there was a barracks there.

Unlike many English castles which fell into disuse, Scarborough has seen almost continuous action since Henry II built it in the twelfth century as a royal power base in the North.

The Romans were the first to see the potential of the cliff-top site, towering a hundred metres above the North Sea. The visitor can still see the remains of the signal station they built here nearly two thousand years ago.

In the fifth century it became a Saxon monastery, and in the tenth, part of a Viking settlement called Scarthe's Burgh. Which is, of course, how Scarborough got its name.



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