Grangetown, North Yorkshire

Grangetown
Grangetown Grangetown shown within North Yorkshire
Population	5,088 (2011.ward)^[1]
OS grid reference	NZ554209
Unitary authority	Redcar and Cleveland
Ceremonial county	North Yorkshire
Region	North East
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	MIDDLESBROUGH
Postcode district	TS6
Dialling code	01642
Police	Cleveland
Fire	Cleveland
Ambulance	North East
EU Parliament	North East England
UK Parliament	Redcar
List of places UK England Yorkshire

Coordinates: 54°34′48″N 1°08′38″W / 54.580°N 1.144°W / 54.580; -1.144

Grangetown is a township in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.

Geography and history

Grangetown houses with industry in the background

Grangetown is situated on the eastern outskirts of the borough of Middlesbrough, beyond South Bank between the town and west of the industrial chemical complex at ICI Wilton. It is approximately 3 miles (4.8 km) east of Middlesbrough centre and 4 miles (6.4 km) from Redcar. Although outside of the Middlesbrough authority, it forms part of the Middlesbrough built-up area sub-division.^[2] It was historically part of the parish and urban district of Eston. Grangetown was brought into Teesside County Borough in 1968; from 1974 to 1996, it formed part of the County of Cleveland, and in 1996 it became part of the Unitary Authority of Redcar and Cleveland, which replaced the district of Langbaurgh-on-Tees. It has a population of approximately 8,000 residents.

The impetus for the development of Grangetown was the discovery of ironstone in the Eston Hills in 1840, and the subsequent development of the iron and steel industry along the riverbanks by Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan. By 1914, it was community of approximately 5,500 people with the majority of the 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. 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 town and a whole cross-section of society lived together in the town.

Grangetown underwent a period of quite rapid expansion between 1914 and 1939. Both the steel companies and the local council built estates from Bolckow Road to and across the new A1085 Trunk Road. The population in 1939 was approximately 9,000. After the war, council house building was extended and in the 1950s reached Fabian Road.

The modern town has long since moved from its original location. Victorian terraced houses, nestled against the heavy industry along the River Tees have been replaced with the warehouses and depots of lighter industry. Some new houses have been built over the years, but Grangetown has lost the popularity of its heyday of the earlier part of the 20th century. The local authority, Redcar and Cleveland Council have embarked on the regeneration project named Greater Eston.

Politics

Grangetown is part of Redcar constituency and is represented by Liberal Democrat Ian Swales in the House of Commons. It is part of the North East England European Parliament constituency, where it is represented by two Labour MEPs and a UKIP MEP.

2011 local elections results

Borough Council

In the 2011 local elections, the following members were returned to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council:^[3]

Ward		Councillor	Party
	Grangetown	Peter Dunlop	Labour Party
	Grangetown	Lynn Pallister	Labour Party

Notable people

Eddie Latheron (1887–1917), Blackburn Rovers and England footballer
William Henry Short V.C. (1884-1916), footballer and Battle of the Somme VC recipient
Horace King, Baron Maybray-King (1901–1986), former Labour Party MP and Speaker of the British House of Commons
Wally K. Daly (born c. 1941), television and radio writer
Alan Keen (1937-2011), former Labour Party MP

Roy Vasey aka Roy 'Chubby' Brown, stand up comedian (born 1945)

Location

South Bank

Teesport

Grangetown

Redcar

Teesville

Eston

References

↑ "Redcar and Cleveland population 2011". Retrieved 23 July 2015.
↑ "2011 UK Census statistics". Retrieved 23 September 2013.
↑ "Redcar & Cleveland". May 2011.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grangetown, North Yorkshire.

Grangetown in Past Times
Genuki - History of Eston parish & District Descriptions from Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890), retrieved 8 February 2006

Redcar and Cleveland Unitary authority

Towns	Eston Grangetown Guisborough Loftus Redcar Saltburn-by-the-Sea Skelton-in-Cleveland South Bank

Villages	Boosbeck Boulby Brotton Carlin How Charltons Coatham Dormanstown Dunsdale Easington Handale Kilton Kilton Thorpe Kirkleatham Lazenby Lingdale Liverton Margrove Park Marske-by-the-Sea Moorsholm New Marske Newton under Roseberry Normanby North Skelton Ormesby Pinchinthorpe Scaling Skinningrove Stanghow Teesville Upleatham Warrenby Wilton Yearby

Parish & Town Councils	Guisborough Lockwood Loftus Saltburn, Marske and New Marske Skelton and Brotton

See also	Cleveland Greater Eston Langbaurgh (wapentake) Langbaurgh East Eston Nab Schools in Redcar and Cleveland South Gare Teesport Teesside Tees Valley Wilton Castle

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