Scarborough, North Yorkshire - Famous For Entrepreneurship By Simon Haughtone Platinum Quality Author

Scarborough, North Yorkshire lies close to the coast of the North Sea and has a few claims to fame. For example, in the year 2008 2009 it was named for providing the most creative as well as inspiring initiatives for business entrepreneurship in all of Europe. It also has been named the single best town in all of Britain for its enterprising spirit.

Scarborough, North Yorkshire was actually founded by the Vikings way back in 966 AD and much later the Romans made it their signal station. In fact, many settlements were found here that dated back to the Stone and Bronze Ages. Since then many other settlements came up where present day Scarborough is located including those erected by Vikings.

The town also saw much destruction as well as massacres and so not much of the town survived till it was saved by King Henry II who erected a castle made out of stone. Later, Edward II presented Scarborough Castle to Piers Gaveston though he was besieged as well as captured by barons who took Gaveston to Oxford and executed him.

Scarborough is also home to Alan Ayckbourn who is a famous dramatist and in fact it also attracts numerous artists that work with different media and the town also has many art galleries. Furthermore, each year in September the town plays host to a major jazz festival and in the summer there is the Beached Festival in which rock and pop music dominates proceedings.

Scarborough is full of live and so there are numerous restaurants, bars and nightclubs. In particular, it pays to visit St Thomas Street that hosts many popular nightclubs and in this street you will also find the new Opera House Casino.

For those who are seeking gastronomic delights the town has numerous restaurants that serve up Italian and Mexican and Indian as well as Thai and even Chinese food; and, of course, you can also the famous chain called Ask that is located here as well.

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