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Answer for the clue "Yorkshire seaside resort ", 11 letters:
scarborough

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
place in Yorkshire, earlier Scarðabork , etc., apparently a viking name, from Old Norse and meaning "fortified place of a man called Skarthi," identified in old chronicles as Thorgils Skarthi, literally "Thorgils Harelip," from Old Norse skartð "notch, ...

Gazetteer Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 3867 Housing Units (2000): 1697 Land area (2000): 4.976204 sq. miles (12.888309 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.013293 sq. miles (0.034430 sq. km) Total area (2000): 4.989497 sq. miles (12.922739 sq. km) FIPS code: 66110 Located within: ...

Usage examples of scarborough.

Without precisely regretting the circumstances which had made it impossible for herself to shine farther afield than York and Scarborough, she was determined that Arabella should not be similarly circumscribed.

On September 23, Jones encountered, off Flamborough Head, a fleet of forty British merchantmen, under convoy of the Serapis, Captain Pearson, of forty-four guns, and the Countess of Scarborough, a ship of twenty guns.

Edward had just time to escape to Tinmouth, where he embarked, and sailed with Gavaston to Scarborough.

Neither Venetia nor Aubrey had been farther from Undershaw than Scarborough, and their acquaintance was limited to the few families living within reach of the Manor.

Winchester, Northampton, Norwich, Ipswich, Doncaster, Carlisle, Lincoln, Scarborough, York, won their charters at the same time--bought by the wealth which had been stored up in the busy years while Henry reigned.

On our arrival in Scarborough we had a talk from our Flight Commander, Flt. Lieut.

Law do a whatdoyoucallit, thread thing imprint, off Scarborough, and it freaked us both out.

Elizabeth Ann Scarborough is the author of twenty-three science fiction and fantasy novels, including the 1989 Nebula Award winning Healer's War and the Powers series cowritten with Anne McCaffrey, as well as the popular Godmother series and the Gothic fantasy mystery Channeling Cleopatra.

When the two weren't working on a writers-in-the-school project for the Fairbanks Arts Association, Scarborough saw to it that McCaffrey tasted the adventures Fairbanks in the winter had to offer: a dogsled ride, the northern lights, a movie about dogsled racing, and (thanks to her friend Hilda's hospitality) moose spaghetti.

All along the cliff-wall to the bluff crowned by Scarborough Castle northward appeared those cracks and caverns which had brought me here: so I got down a slope to a rude beach, strewn with blocks of chalk, and never did I feel so paltry and short a being, bays of rock outflung about me, their bluffs encrusted at the base with crass old leprosies of barnacles and beardedness of seaweed, and, higher up, their whiteness all daubed and time-spoiled, darksome caverns yawning in the enormous withdrawals of the rock-wall.

Mom said that Granpa and Gramma quit the Congregational Church in Scarborough at the same time Gramma decided to quit teaching, but once, about a year ago, when Aunt Flo was up for a visit from her home in Salt Lake City, George and Buddy, listening at the register as Mom and her sister sat up late, talking, heard quite a different story.

Cathy visited some Baha'i friends and then returned to the Scarborough Beach motel where Nick and Peter Fortune were staying.

Kittery, York, Wells, Ogunquit, maybe Scarborough or Boothbay Harbor.