Scarborough Castle (English Heritage)

Castle Road
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
YO11 1HY
England

Website

E-mail

Customer Services

customers@english-heritage.org.uk

Telephone

01723 372451

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
An exterior view of Scarborough Castle
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Scarborough Castle defends a prominent headland between two bays, with sheer drops to the sea and only a narrow landward approach. Specially contructed viewing platforms on the battlements offer panoramic views. The site's 3,000 year history is explore in interactive displays in the restored Master Gunner's House, accompanied by artefacts from each period of Scarborough's past. Less mobile visitors can enjoy a groundfloor touch-screen virtual tour of the displays as well as virtual views reproducing those from the raised platforms.

Venue Type:

Museum, Castle or defences

 Opening hours

1 Apr-30 Sep 10am-6pm daily / 1 Oct-31 Mar 10am-4pm Thu-Mon / Closed 24-26 Dec and 1 Jan

 Admission charges

4.80/4.30/2.90/12.50

Discounts

  • English Heritage
 General services and facilities
  • General audio-guide available
  • Pre-booking service for groups
  • Cafeteria
  • Picnic area
  • Shop
 Children and families
  • Events and resources for children and families
  • Baby changing facilities
 Disability access
  • Events/teaching/resources for people with disabilities
  • Parking for disabled available
  • Wheelchair access to some public areas
 Schools services and facilities
  • Education facilities available

Castle Road
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
YO11 1HY
England

Website

E-mail

Customer Services

customers@english-heritage.org.uk

Telephone

01723 372451

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.

Collections services

  • General guide to collections available

Castle Road
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
YO11 1HY
England

Website

E-mail

Customer Services

customers@english-heritage.org.uk

Telephone

01723 372451

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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 Face to face resources

Become a Medieval Engineer Discovery Visit

How did people from the past build bridges, towers and siege engines? Become a real engineer in practical workshops exploring how our ancestors solved construction problems. Using a large-scale construction kit, this is literally a hands-on history experience! Explore the main features of the castle in an interactive tour, relating these to methods of attack and defence and construction. Working in groups, use Tic-Tac (plastic construction materials)to build a successful bridge alongside the castle walls, exploring how medieval engineers faced and solved the same problems. A second activity involves building a catapult and taking part in a bean-bag throwing challenge, identifying features of

How to obtain

Call 01904 601917 to book this 2 hour session, available 24, 25, 29 and 30 June 2009. Price £75 per group of up to 30 pupils. Visit http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.19516 for more information.

 Paper-based and downloads

Scarborough Castle Teacher's Kit (English Heritage)

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/upload/pdf/Scarborough_TK.pdf

A downloadable photocopiable teaching resource sheet for use in the classroom. The teacher's kit is essential for pre-, during and post-site visit work and includes: site history, site plans & tour, documentary sources, activities, photos & reconstruction artwork, details of how to visit and supporting resources information.

Creator

  • English Heritage Education

How to obtain

Please click on the link to download.

Castle Road
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
YO11 1HY
England

Website

E-mail

Customer Services

customers@english-heritage.org.uk

Telephone

01723 372451

All information is supplied by the venues or providers themselves and every effort is made to ensure it is correct. Please remember to double check opening hours with the venue concerned before making a special visit.
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