The vikings in Scarborough
The Pagan Danes in the ninth century were a perpetual trouble to the whole of England, but especially to the coastal parts. We may be sure the North Yorkshire (or Deira) coast did not escape. York was burnt, Nottingham was plundered, Mercia, Northumbria and East anglia, were all over-run by these sea locusts. No sooner were they checked by land, than they poured down trebly from their sharp keeled boats. Ethelred never had a moment's peace from these gentry, and Edmund, a Royal Prince, they set up as a target for their arrows. Not until 878 were they stopped in their ravaging courses by Alfred the Great, down in Somersetshire, and even after that it was not all peace on the more exposed parts of the coast. Out of the Vale of york they would harry many a fat cow, and off the moors they would sweep every sheep they could find. Off Scarborough and Whitby they would find plenty of sea pasture - loads of fish: No castle then existed to keep strangers at a distance, so our Danish visitors would have it all their own way. There are many Danish remains near Flamborough - at least they are as likely to be Danish as anything else. It is said that red haired people abound along the coast, showing the prevalence of Danish descent in this district of England.
an extract from Meadleys "Memorials of Scarborough"
OTHER ARTICLES
• The Yorkshire smuggler - the smuggling of contraband
• The national RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861.
• Coastal erosion in the 19th Century around the North Bay and Scarborough Castle area
• The port of Scarborough in the late 15th Century
• aThe coble boats of Filey Flamborough and Runswicks Bay
• The smuggling along the Yorkshire coast - Cloughton Wyke
• Thomas Crimlisk - First of the Crimlisks
• The Smuggling of contraband and the coastguard in Flamborough
• Primitive Methodism amongst the Scarborough Filey and Flamborough fishing communities
• A sea shanty about a storm on the Scarborough coast
• The 200 year history of scarboroughs RNLI
• Harwood Brierleys description of Scarborough harbour at the opening of the 20th century
• The Borough of Scarborough formed in the 12th Century
• Trawling During WW2 around scarborough and the North - East coast
• Shipping Ironstone down the coast by John Rushton
• The Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families
• Carrying Coal to the Yorkshire Coast - John Rushton
• Shipbuilding at Scarborough - the wooden barques and schooners
• The fishing community in Flamborough head - superstition and bad luck
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