What is "scarborough"

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, hack (in the edge of a thing); mountain pass." It has been noted that a literal reading of the name as "gap-hill" suits the location. Scarborough warning "short notice or none" is from 1540s.

Scarborough may refer to:

The Scarborough Metro-North Railroad station serves Scarborough-on-Hudson and Briarcliff Manor, New York, via the Hudson Line. Trains leave for New York City every 25 to 35 minutes on weekdays. The station is from Grand Central Terminal and travel time to Grand Central is about 42 minutes on the express and 61 minutes on local service. The Scarborough station is within walking distance of most houses in the hamlet. , daily commuter ridership was 865. Trains stop at the station every hour, except during peak hours, when trains stop there two to four times per hour.

Construction of the Scarborough station dates back to the 1860s, when the first station building stood along the Hudson River Railroad, which was completed in 1851 and served areas from New York City to Rensselaer. It became part of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority's Metro-North Railroad in 1983, when the service was created. The station was included in a revitalization plan in 2007 to help serve its commuters. The 1899 station building has housed the Scarborough post office since 1961.

Scarborough was the name of a constituency in Yorkshire, electing Members of Parliament to the House of Commons, at two periods. From 1295 until 1918 it was a parliamentary borough consisting only of the town of Scarborough, electing two MPs until 1885 and one from 1885 until 1918. In 1974 the name was revived for a county constituency, covering a much wider area; this constituency was abolished in 1997.

Scarborough is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

• Chuck Scarborough (born 1943), American television news anchor
• Edmund Scarborough (c.1617–1671), Virginia politician, soldier and landowner
• Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (born 1947), American fantasy/science fiction writer
• George Scarborough (1859–1900), a Western lawman and outlaw
• Joe Scarborough (born 1963), American politician and cable TV news personality
• William Sanders Scarborough (1852–1926), American classics scholar

Three vessels with the name Scarborough have served the British East India Company (EIC).

• Scarborough, launched December 1734 by Buxton, Rotherhithe, of 501 tons ( bm), and 30 guns, made two voyages for the EIC. The Royal Navy purchased her on 21 November 1739 to use as a storeship, but then used her as a hospital ship instead. The Navy sold her on 18 December 1744.
• Scarborough, launched c.1740, made four voyages for the EIC and gave her name to Scarborough Shoal after grounding there in 1748.
• Scarborough, launched in 1782, carried convicts on the First Fleet to New South Wales, carried a cargo for the EIC from China back to Britain, and again carried convicts on the Second Fleet. Scarborough then made one more trip for the EIC between 1801 and 1802.