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Grangetown, North Yorkshire

Grangetown is an area in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. The area is 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Middlesbrough and 4 miles (6.4 km) from south-west of Redcar.[2]

Grangetown
Slater Road shops, south Grangetown
Grangetown is located in North Yorkshire
Grangetown
Grangetown
Location within North Yorkshire
Population5,088 (2011 census. Ward)[1]
OS grid referenceNZ554209
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townMIDDLESBROUGH
Postcode districtTS6
Dialling code01642
PoliceCleveland
FireCleveland
AmbulanceNorth East
UK Parliament
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
54°34′48″N 1°08′38″W / 54.580°N 1.144°W / 54.580; -1.144

A ward covering the area had a population of 5,088 at the 2011 census.[1] It is part of Greater Eston, which includes the area and the other centres of Eston, Normanby, South Bank, Teesville and part of Ormesby.[3]

History edit

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.[4] The name of the village was taken from a farm nearby called Eston Grange, formerly a working farm for the monks of Guisborough Priory.[5]

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.[6] The Church of St Matthew, which was built in 1901, was demolished in 1979 and replaced with another building, the St Hilda of Whitby Church.[7][8] Though the inhabitants came from many parts of the country, the community had built up a strong identity and local pride. The majority of men worked in the steel works, but a wide range of skills was represented within the area and a whole cross-section of society lived together in the area. In 1906, a power station was built near the railway station, which was the first in the world to generate at 11,000 volts.[9] It closed in 1937[10] [11] and was demolished in 1969.

 
A trolleybus at the former centre Grangetown market square on the 31 March 1968

Grangetown had a period of expansion between 1914 and 1939. Both the steel companies and the Eston Urban District council built estates from Bolckow Road to and across the new A1085 Trunk Road,[12] with the steel company Bolckow Vaughan expanding their housing under the name of Grangetown Garden Village.[13] The population in 1939 was approximately 9,000. After the war, council house building was extended and in the 1950s reached Fabian Road.

 
Grangetown Youth & Community Centre, Home to Grangetown Boys Club

The modern centre is on Birchington Avenue, the move in part due to the A66, which built through the area in the 1980s, and ends at a roundabout in the east of Grangetown.[14] Victorian terraced-houses, near heavy industry along the River Tees have been replaced with warehouses and depots of lighter industry. Some new houses have been built over the years with most of its original Victorian architecture lost.

 
The town's local football team who compete in the North Riding League Premier Division


Governance edit

It was historically part of the ancient Langbaurgh Wapentake in the Cleveland area of Yorkshire in its North Riding. The ancient parish of Ormesby was split into civil parishes, the area became part of the Eston parish.[15] The civil parish developed into the Eston Urban District.[16] The district was merged into County Borough of Teesside in 1968 until 1974.[17][18] The area was then placed into the Borough of Langbaurgh's County of Cleveland until 1988 when it became the Borough of Langbaurgh-on-Tees, which became the present Unitary Authority of Redcar and Cleveland.[19][20]

Politics edit

Grangetown is part of Redcar constituency,[21] and is represented by Conservative Member Jacob Young in the House of Commons.

2023 local elections results edit

Borough Council edit

In the 2023 local elections, the following members were returned to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council:[22]

Ward Councillor Party
Grangetown Adam Lee Brook Labour Party
Grangetown Lynn Pallister Labour Party

Notable people edit

See also edit

References edit

  1. ^ a b UK Census (2011). "Local Area Report – Grangetown Ward (as of 2011) (E05001509)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
  2. ^ "2011 UK Census statistics". Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  3. ^ "Redcar and Cleveland Council – Greater Eston". Archived from the original on 31 January 2010. Retrieved 13 June 2010.
  4. ^ Page 1968, p. 277.
  5. ^ "Grangetown | Cleveland & Teesside Local History Society". ctlhs.co.uk. 28 September 2018. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Grangetown". maps.nls.uk. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  7. ^ Pevsner, Nikolaus, Sir (2002) [1981]. Yorkshire, the North Riding. New Haven: Yale University Press. p. 173. ISBN 0300096658.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  8. ^ "The Parish of St Hilda of Whitby, Grangetown. Parish Profile 2015" (PDF). dioceseofyork.org.uk. p. 3. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  9. ^ Bone, William A. (1918). Coal and its scientific uses. London: Longmans, Green and Co. p. 443. OCLC 1120647145.
  10. ^ "Hidden Teesside". hidden-teesside.co.uk. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  11. ^ chris.twigg (18 May 2010). "Hidden Teesside - Grangetown Power Station". Hidden Teesside. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  12. ^ Abercrombie, P.; Holliday, A. C. (July 1921). "South Tees Side". The Town Planning Review. ix (2). Liverpool: Liverpool University Press: 72. ISSN 1478-341X.
  13. ^ "Bolckow, Vaughan, & Co". The Times. No. 43220. 21 December 1922. p. 19. ISSN 0140-0460.
  14. ^ Franks, Alan (5 April 2003). "Route 66: Beauty and the Beast". The Times. No. 67729. p. 67. ISSN 0140-0460.
  15. ^ Page 1968, p. 276.
  16. ^ Weston, W. J. (2012) [1919]. North Riding of Yorkshire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 149. ISBN 978-1-107-62244-9.
  17. ^ Rees-Mogg, William, ed. (5 November 1971). "Reforms are described as disheartening: towns fear danger of rural supremacy". The Times. No. 58317. p. 4. ISSN 0140-0460.
  18. ^ Faux, Ronald (27 January 1972). "Teesside is prepared to fight for its existence". The Times. No. 58386. p. 2. ISSN 0140-0460.
  19. ^ Gledhill, Raymond (1 April 1974). "White Rose ties hold fast despite amputations and shake-up of boundaries". The Times. No. 59053. p. 31. ISSN 0140-0460.
  20. ^ Faux, Ronald (23 April 1990). "Land of coast, hills and contrasts". The Times. No. 63687. p. 39. ISSN 0140-0460.
  21. ^ "Election Maps". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  22. ^ "Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council Local Election Results" (PDF). redcar-cleveland.gov.uk. 3 May 2019. p. 6. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  23. ^ "Fans honour war hero Rovers player". Lancashire Telegraph. 9 October 2007. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  24. ^ "Private William Henry Short | War Casualty Details 599344". cwgc.org. Retrieved 5 August 2022.
  25. ^ The Register of the Victoria Cross. Cheltenham: This England Books. 1981. p. 239. ISBN 0906324033.
  26. ^ Howell, David (23 September 2004). "King, Horace Maybray, Baron Maybray-King". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/39852. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  27. ^ "Wally K Daly, 79: Electrician turned prolific and pigtailed playwright". The Times. 27 June 2020. Retrieved 4 August 2022.
  28. ^ Harding, James, ed. (15 November 2011). "Alan Keen obituary". The Times. No. 70417. p. 55. ISSN 0140-0460.
  29. ^ "Who the f*** is Chubby?". BBC Tees. 29 October 2014. Retrieved 27 December 2016.
  30. ^ Waller, Robert (2002). The almanac of British politics (7 ed.). London: Routledge. p. 652. ISBN 0415268338.

Sources edit

  • Page, William (1968). The Victoria history of the county of York, North Riding. London: Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Research. ISBN 0712903100.

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