Borough of Scarborough
The Borough of Scarborough (/ˈskɑːrbərə/)[1][2] was a non-metropolitan district with borough status in North Yorkshire, England. In addition to the town of Scarborough, it covered a large stretch of the coast of Yorkshire, including Whitby and Filey.[3] It bordered Redcar and Cleveland to the north, the Ryedale and Hambleton districts to the west and the East Riding of Yorkshire to the south.
Scarborough | |
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 Scarborough shown within North Yorkshire | |
| Coordinates: 54.280°N 0.402°W | |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Constituent country | England |
| Region | Yorkshire and the Humber |
| Ceremonial county | North Yorkshire |
| Administrative HQ | Scarborough (Town Hall) |
| Government | |
| • Type | Non-metropolitan district |
| • Body | Scarborough Borough Council |
| • Leadership | Leader and Cabinet |
| • Executive | |
| • Leader | Steve Siddons (Labour) |
| • Mayor | Hazel Lynskey |
| • Chief Executive | Michael Greene |
| Area | |
| • Total | 315.1 sq mi (816.2 km2) |
| Population (2021) | |
| • Total | 108,959 |
| • Density | 350/sq mi (130/km2) |
| • Ethnicity | 99.0% White |
| Time zone | UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC+1 (British Summer Time) |
| Postcode area | YO (11, 12, 13, 14, 21, 22) |
| GSS code | E07000168 |
| NUTS 3 code | UKE22 |
| ONS code | 36UG |
| Website | www.scarborough.gov.uk |
The district was formed on 1 April 1974, under the Local Government Act 1972. It was a merger of the urban district of Filey and part of the Bridlington Rural District, from the historic East Riding of Yorkshire, along with the municipal borough of Scarborough, Scalby and Whitby urban districts, and Scarborough Rural District and Whitby Rural District, from the historic North Riding.
In 2007, the borough was threatened with extinction. In March of that year, North Yorkshire County Council was shortlisted by the Department for Communities and Local Government to become a unitary authority. If the bid had been successful then the Borough of Scarborough would — along with all other districts and boroughs in the present county of North Yorkshire — have been abolished then. The bid, however, was unsuccessful and the districts remained as they were previously constituted.
However, in July 2021 the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government announced that in April 2023, the non-metropolitan county would be reorganised into a unitary authority. Scarborough Borough Council was abolished and its functions were transferred to a new single authority for the non-metropolitan county of North Yorkshire.[4][5]
Education
There were a total of 64 schools and colleges in the Scarborough area, as of 2012.
Localities
The Borough of Scarborough included many civil parishes and suburbs including: Brompton-by-Sawdon, Broxa-cum-Troutsdale, Cloughton, Commondale, Crossgates, Eastfield, Glaisdale, Houlsyke, Hunmanby, Hutton Buscel, Irton, Littlebeck, Muston, Newby and Scalby, Ravenscar, Ruston, Silpho, Snainton, Seamer, West Ayton, Wykeham and others.
Wards of Scarborough town were Castle, Central, Eastfield, Falsgrave Park, Newby, North Bay, Northstead, Ramshill, Stepney, Weaponness, and Woodlands. Areas without namesake wards included Westborough (centre), Barrowcliff and Newlands.
In 2016, the borough ranked second in Visit England's survey of overall holiday trips and holiday spend, topped only by London.[6]
Media
Since 1882, it has been served by The Scarborough News, which is published every Thursday.
The Scarborough Borough receives a daily radio news services from these radio stations, BBC Radio York also covers Scarborough, BBC Radio Tees covering Whitby & Greatest Hits Radio Yorkshire Coast which was previously known as Yorkshire Coast Radio and used to have studios in Scarborough.This is The Coast broadcasts from Scarborough on DAB and provides regular local news bulletins,[7]
Local news and television programmes in Scarborough is covered by BBC Yorkshire & ITV Yorkshire from Leeds and Whitby receives their local news and television programmes from BBC North East & Cumbria & ITV Tyne Tees in Newcastle.
Freedom of the Borough
The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Scarborough.
Individuals
- H. D. G. Leveson-Gower: 1950
- Max Jaffa: 1986.
- Alan Ayckbourn: 1986.
- Alan Booth: 1999
- Charles McCarthy: 1996.
- Max Payne : 1999.
- Thomas Pindar: 1999.
- Sir John Wilson: 1999.
- Bernard Bosomworth: 2005.
- Elizabeth Mackenzie: 2005.
- Jimmy Savile: 2005. (Revoked on 5 November 2012 by unanimous vote of Scarborough Borough Council due to the sexual abuse scandal).[8]
- Christopher Wilby: 2005.
- Ken Dale: 2009.
- Baron Derwent: 2009.
- Tony Peers: 2009.
- George Thomas Tuby: 2009.
- Paul Ingle: 24 February 2012.[9]
- Andrew Boyes: 24 February 2012.[9]
- Timothy Boyes: 24 February 2012.[9]
- Donald Robinson: 24 February 2012.[9]
- Beth Mead: 20 March 2023.[10][11]
- Zoe Aldcroft: 20 March 2023.[10][11]
Military units
- 64 Medical Squadron 5 Medical Regiment RAMC: 2007.
- 3 Medical Regiment RAMC: May 2015.[12]
- The Yorkshire Regiment.
Borough council
The political composition of the council at all-up elections, ignoring intervening by-elections, from the 2003 election to the final election in 2019, is as follows:
| Overall control | Conservative | Labour | Lib Dem | UKIP | Independent | Green | |||||||
| 2019 | Labour/Independent | 16 | 13 | – | 1 | 14 | 2 | ||||||
| 2015 | Conservative | 26 | 14 | – | 5 | 3 | 2 | ||||||
| 2011 | Conservative | 25 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 14 | 2 | ||||||
| 2007 | Conservative | 26 | 4 | 6 | – | 14 | 2 | ||||||
| 2003 | Conservative | 27 | 8 | 2 | – | 13 | – | ||||||
See also
References
- "Definition of Scarborough". Collins English Dictionary. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
- "Definition for Scarborough – Oxford Dictionaries Online (World English)". Oxforddictionaries.com. Archived from the original on 16 January 2014. Retrieved 8 March 2012.
- "Scarborough | England, United Kingdom". Encyclopedia Britannica. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
- "Next steps for new unitary councils in Cumbria, North Yorkshire and Somerset". GOV.UK. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- "The new council". North Yorkshire County Council. Retrieved 20 December 2021.
- "Scarborough borough named one of England's most visited destinations". York Press. Retrieved 15 September 2017.
- "Former Yorkshire Coast Radio staff to launch own radio station for Scarborough and east coast". The Scarborough News. Retrieved 21 August 2023.
- Wainwright, Martin (31 October 2012). "Jimmy Savile to be stripped of Scarborough honour". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
- "The Famous Five". The Scarborough News. 6 April 2012. Retrieved 21 March 2023 – via PressReader.
- Numminen, Anttoni (11 March 2023). "Beth Mead and Zoe Aldcroft to be granted Freedom of the Borough of Scarborough at a special ceremony". The Scarborough News. Retrieved 11 March 2023.
- Pells, Matthew (20 March 2023). "Beth Mead Receives Freedom of the Borough of Scarborough". This is the Coast Local Radio. Retrieved 20 March 2023.
- "Freedom of the borough given to honour soldiers". Chorley Guardian. Retrieved 8 September 2019.
