Yards and passages in Scarborough

Scarborough's old town used to be crammed full of small streets and yards. Houses were built onto the hill over the centuries in a very random way. Cyril Prescott listed the yards in 1892. There were 17 yards and passages off Quay Street. There were 21 little streets off Longwestgate. There were other notable little streets. Take for instance Malt Shovel Yard on Leading Post Street. Then Mast Yard on Sandside. Also, Neptune Terrace on Foreshore Road and Free dwellings on Tollergate. Here is a list of those on Quay Street and Longwestgate. Yards off Quay Street
-Applebys passage
-Dog and Duck Lane
-Clarksons Yard
-Coates Yard
-Davisons Yard
-Davisons Court
-Long Greece Steps
-Gas House Yard
-Nesfields yard
-Old Gashouse Lane
-Salmon Steps
-Spread Eagle Lane
-Smiths Yard
-Wyrills Yard
-Bakehouse Steps
-Smiths Yard
-Oxleys Yard

Yards and places off Longwestgate
- Avenue cottages
- Binningtons Yard
- Clarksons buildings
- Coates Yard
- Cockerills Yard
- Darlings yard
- Ebenezer Place
- Edmonds Passages
- Headleys Yard
- Hopes cottages
- Ness's Passage
- Ness Yard
- Nicolsons yard
- Niso Terrace
- Livingstone Yard
- Lownsboroughs yard
- Peacocks Yard
- Pextons Yard
- Piercys Yard
- Reads entry
- Robinsons Almhouses
- Tindalls yard




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• The Harwood and Bullamore fishing family history in Scarborough
• Witches and black cats in the Old Town in Scarborough - superstitions
• Life in the Old Town of Scarborough and harbour - the fishing families
• Children of the fishing families in Scarborough
• Customs Officer during golden age of smuggling in Scarborough
• Strange customs amongst the Scarborough shipbuilders
• The Allen and Truman Scarborough fishing families
• Ray Edmonds stories of the Old Town in Scarborough
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• Fishing names in Scarborough's Old Town - Cammish Jenkinson and Sheader
• Charles Dickens account of Filey and Scarborough graveyards
• Community spirit in the Old Town in Filey
• Filey and the gales of 1860,1867,1869 AND 1880
• Two Scarborough trawler skippers receive bad news
• Watching for ships by the harbour walls in Scarborough
• The old Long room in Sandside
• The national RNLI and the Scarborough lifeboat of 1861.
• Paradise House - Scarborough

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