Yarmouth

Small seaport on the northwest coast of the Isle of Wight, England, 16 km/10 mi west of Newport at the mouth of the River Yar; population (2001, Shalfleet and Yarmouth) 2,300. Yarmouth is a yachting centre; there is a car-ferry service from here across the Solent to Lymington.

Yarmouth

Town in Barnstable County, southeast Massachusetts; population (2000 est) 24,800. It is a summer resort community situated on Cape Cod Bay and Nantucket Sound, and lies 7 km/4 mi east of Barnstable. Cranberries are cultivated in the area. In the 19th century, Yarmouth was an important fishing and shipping port. It was incorporated in 1639 and named Yarmouth in 1849 after Yarmouth, England.

Yarmouth was originally a site of the Wampanoag Nation, whose name for the area was Mattacheese. It has four entries on the National Register of Historic Places, including farms and historic districts.

Yarmouth

Town and administrative headquarters of Yarmouth County, southwest Nova Scotia, Canada; population (1991) 7,800. It is situated at the entrance to the Bay of Fundy, 217 km/135 mi west-southwest of Halifax. It is a port and fishing and resort centre, with ferries to Maine ports, and a number of agricultural processing and other light industries.

A late-19th-century wooden-shipbuilding centre, it developed in the 1760s, when New Englanders settled where Micmac and Acadians previously had lived.