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Eston
Eston is a Village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. The ward covering the area (as well as Lackenby, Lazenby and Wilton) had a population of 7,005 at the 2011 census. It is part of Greater Eston, which includes the outlying settlements of Grangetown, Normanby, South Bank, Teesville and part of Ormesby. Excluding Ormesby, the wider area came under the former Eston Urban District from 1894 until 1968. This was a single civil parish with a district council which had the ability to gain a charter to be a town and become a municipal borough in this case it did not. The County Borough of Teesside was created in 1968. The town remains unparished. History The land around Eston has been occupied since 2400 BC. The 1850 discovery of ironstone in Eston Hills by industrialists from Middlesbrough (most notably Henry Bolckow and John Vaughan) saw Eston develop from a small farming settlement in 1850 to a thriving mining town. Miners' cottages, al ...
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Normanby, Redcar And Cleveland
Normanby is an area in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. A ward covering the area had a population of 6,930 at the 2011 census. It is part of Greater Eston, which includes the area and the outlying settlements of Eston, Grangetown, South Bank, Teesville and part of Ormesby. Ormesby's ancient parish was split into civil parishes. As a township, Normanby civil parish was formed with South Bank, it was under the South Bank in Normanby Urban District Council from 1894-1915. The urban district and parish merged into the Eston Urban District which was abolished in 1968 with the district becoming part of the County Borough of Teesside. In 1974, the county borough was abolished with the area remaining unparished since the abolition. History In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Normanby like this: Governance Normanby is part of Redcar parliamentary constituency and is represented by Jacob Young (poli ...
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Greater Eston
Greater Eston is an unparished area in the Borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. The name is used by the borough's council to describe the centres of Eston, Grangetown, Normanby, Ormesby, South Bank and Teesville. It had a population of 38,1307,005, 6,517, 5,088, 6,548, 5,942, 6,930, Accessed: 5 August 2021 at the 2011 census and was included as part of the Teesside Built-up Area's Middlesbrough subdivision. The villages of Lackenby, Lazenby and Wilton are in the area however were not included in Middlesbrough. It is mainly an area which was formerly covered by the Eston Urban District until 1968, it did not include Ormesby which was in a parish of the Stokesley Rural District. The former district's application for a town charter was declined twice. Governance Ceremonial *North Riding of Yorkshire, 1889-1974 *County of Cleveland, 1974-1996 *North Yorkshire, 1996–present Parished The ancient parish of Ormesby was divided into five civil parishes in 1 ...
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Eston Urban District
Greater Eston is an unparished area in the Borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. The name is used by the borough's council to describe the centres of Eston, Grangetown, Normanby, Ormesby, South Bank and Teesville. It had a population of 38,1307,005, 6,517, 5,088, 6,548, 5,942, 6,930, Accessed: 5 August 2021 at the 2011 census and was included as part of the Teesside Built-up Area's Middlesbrough subdivision. The villages of Lackenby, Lazenby and Wilton are in the area however were not included in Middlesbrough. It is mainly an area which was formerly covered by the Eston Urban District until 1968, it did not include Ormesby which was in a parish of the Stokesley Rural District. The former district's application for a town charter was declined twice. Governance Ceremonial *North Riding of Yorkshire, 1889-1974 *County of Cleveland, 1974-1996 *North Yorkshire, 1996–present Parished The ancient parish of Ormesby was divided into five civil parishes in 1 ...
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Teesville
Teesville is an area in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. A ward covering the area had a population of 6,517 at the 2011 census. It is part of Greater Eston, which includes the area and the settlements of Eston, Normanby, South Bank, Teesville and part of Ormesby. Politics Teesville is part of the Redcar constituency in the House of Commons. 2015 local elections results In the 2015 local elections, the following members were returned to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council: Municipal buildings The town hall of Teesville was used by the Eston Urban District council from 1961 to 1968. When the County Borough of Teesside was abolished in 1974, the Borough of Langbaurgh, as part of the secord tier of local government within Cleveland County, used the town hall for the borough. The borough changed its name in 1988 to Langbaurgh-on-Tees and, as a unitary authority, after the abolition of Cleveland County, to Redcar and Cleveland in 1996. ...
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Grangetown, North Yorkshire
Grangetown is an area in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. The area is east of Middlesbrough and from south-west of Redcar. A ward covering the area had a population of 5,088 at the 2011 census. It is part of Greater Eston, which includes the area and the other centres of Eston, Normanby, South Bank, Teesville and part of Ormesby. History The development of Grangetown was the discovery of ironstone in the Eston Hills in 1840, and the further development of the iron and steel industry along the riverbanks by Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan from 1881. The name of the village was taken from a farm nearby called ''Eston Grange'', formerly a working farm for the monks of Guisborough Priory. By 1914, it was community of around 5,500 people with most houses lying between Bolckow Road and the steel works. There was a market square, shopping centre, boarding school, three pubs, six places of worship, a police station and public bathhouse. The Church ...
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South Bank, Middlesbrough
South Bank is a township in the Redcar and Cleveland borough in North Yorkshire, England on the south bank of the River Tees. It is east of Middlesbrough and south-west of Redcar. The town is served by railway station. The namesake ward had a population of 6,548 at the 2011 census. It forms part of the Teesside built-up area's Middlesbrough subdivision in 2011. The area is part of Greater Eston; which also includes Eston, Grangetown, Normanby, Teesville and part of Ormesby. Ormesby's ancient parish was split into civil parishes. The area was in Normanby civil parish. In 1894, the area gained a higher population with South Bank in Normanby Urban District Council created. A town hall was built for the district in 1878 and was demolished before the urban district merged with Eston Urban District in 1915. The Eston Urban District was abolished in 1968 with the district becoming part of the County Borough of Teesside. In 1974, the county borough, with the area remaining unpa ...
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County Borough Of Teesside
Teesside was, from 1968 to 1974, a local government district in northern England. It comprised a conurbation that spanned both sides of the River Tees from which it took its name. Teesside had the status of a county borough and was independent of the county councils of the North Riding of Yorkshire,* and County Durham. The Lord Lieutenant of the North Riding of Yorkshire represented the whole of Teesside, including those areas north of the Tees which were in Durham. Predecessor authorities The River Tees formed the historic county boundary between Yorkshire and Durham. A continuous conurbation had built up around the mouth of the river, increasing greatly in population from the nineteenth century as the industrial potential of the area was developed. LGD = Local Government District MB = Municipal Borough, CB = County Borough, UD = Urban District Formation Local Government Commission for England Under the Local Government Act 1958 a Local Government Commission for Engla ...
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Redcar (UK Parliament Constituency)
Redcar is a constituency represented in the House of Commons of the UK Parliament since 2019 by Jacob Young, a Conservative. History The constituency was created in 1974 and was held by the Labour Party from then until 2019, except during a period between 2010 and 2015 when it was held by the Liberal Democrats. In the 2019 General Election, Redcar was the largest Labour majority overturned by the Conservatives, being represented since by a Conservative MP. Boundaries 1974–1983: The County Borough of Teesside wards of Coatham, Eston Grange, Kirkleatham, Ormesby, Redcar, and South Bank. 1983–1997: The Borough of Langbaurgh wards of Bankside, Church Lane, Coatham, Dormanstown, Eston, Grangetown, Kirkleatham, Newcomen, Normanby, Ormesby, Overfields, Redcar, South Bank, Teesville, and West Dyke. 1997–2010: The Borough of Langbaurgh-on-Tees wards of Coatham, Dormanstown, Eston, Grangetown, Kirkleatham, Longbeck, Newcomen, Normanby, Ormesby, Redcar, St Germain's, South Bank ...
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Redcar And Cleveland
Redcar and Cleveland is a borough with unitary authority status in North Yorkshire, England. Its main settlements are Redcar, South Bank, Eston, Brotton, Guisborough, the Greater Eston part of Middlesbrough, Loftus, Saltburn and Skelton. The borough had a resident population of 135,200 in 2011. It is a part of the Tees Valley mayoralty: the current mayor is Ben Houchen. The borough is represented in Parliament by Jacob Young (Conservative Party) for the Redcar constituency, and by Simon Clarke (Conservative Party) for the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency. History The district was created in 1974 as the borough of Langbaurgh, one of four districts of the new non-metropolitan county of Cleveland. It was formed from the Coatham, Kirkleatham, Ormesby, Redcar and South Bank wards of the County Borough of Teesside, along with Guisborough, Loftus, Saltburn and Marske-by-the-Sea, Eston Grange and Skelton and Brotton urban districts, from the North Riding of ...
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Ormesby
Ormesby is an area which is split between Borough of Middlesbrough and Borough of Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire, England. It is in the Middlesbrough part of the Teesside built up area. Spencer Beck to the east and the B1380 road to the south form the boundary of Redcar and Cleveland with Middlesbrough's borough. The Ormesby ward, including Overfields and Ormesby Hall, had a population of 5,942 at the 2011 census. The Park End and Beckfield ward, which also includes Priestfields and Netherfields, is the area of Ormesby in borough of Middlesbrough. History Ormesby manor and church are recorded in the Domesday Book of 1086 as the property of 'Orme', to whose name the suffix (derived from a Viking word for habitation or dwelling place) was added to make Ormesby. The manor of Ormesby was extensive and stretched about from the banks of the River Tees to the brow of the hill south of Ormesby village. Its east and west boundaries were defined by the becks, Spencer B ...
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Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough ( ) is a town on the southern bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, England. It is near the North York Moors national park. It is the namesake and main town of its local borough council area. Until the early 1800s, the area was rural farming land. By 1830, a new industrial town and port started to be developed, driven by the coal and later ironworks. Steel production and ship building began in the late 1800s, remaining associated with the town until post-industrial decline occurred in the late twentieth century. Trade (notably through ports) and digital enterprise sectors contemporarily contribute to the local economy, Teesside University and Middlesbrough College to local education. In 1853, it became a town. The motto ("We shall be" in Latin) was adopted, it reflects ("We have been") of the Bruce clan which were Cleveland's mediaeval lords. The town's coat of arms is three ships representing shipbuilding and maritime trade and an azure (bl ...
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Wilton, Redcar And Cleveland
Wilton is a small village in Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. In 1951 the parish had a population of 958. Geography It is located between Redcar and Eston at the base of Eston Hills – to the east of Eston Nab. The village is noted for its golf course and castle, Wilton Castle. It lies just south of the A174 trunk road. On the other side of the A174, is the village of Lazenby. History The parish church is dedicated to St Cuthbert. Wilton Castle was sold to ICI in the 1940s. Wilton Castle Wilton Castle is an early 19th-century mansion house, built on the site of a medieval castle, now converted into residential apartments. It is a Grade II listed building. The Bulmer family owned the manor of Wilton in the 13th century and were granted a licence to fortify their manor house in 1210. In 1331 Ralph Bulmer was granted permission to build a castle on his manor. The estate was confiscated by the Crown following the attainder and execution of Sir John ...
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