Greater Eston is an

unparished area In England, an unparished area is an area that is not covered by a civil parish (the lowest level of local government, not to be confused with an ecclesiastical parish). Most urbanised districts of England are either entirely or partly unparish ...

in the Borough of

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. Th ...

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, England. The name is used by the borough's council to describe the centres of

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 include ...

, Grangetown, Normanby,

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 ...

, South Bank and

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, N ...

. 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 Teesside () is a built-up area around the River Tees in the north of England, split between County Durham and North Yorkshire. The name was initially used as a county borough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Historically a hub for heavy manu ...

Built-up Area's

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 a ...

subdivision. The villages of

Lackenby Lackenby is a small village in Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It is situated to the immediate east of Eston and Middlesbrough Middlesbrough ( ) is a town on the southern bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, England. I ...

Lazenby Lazenby is a village in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located just off the A174, a 2-minute drive away from Eston Eston is a Village in the borough of Redcar a ...

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

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was declined twice.

Governance

Ceremonial

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, 1889-1974 * County of Cleveland, 1974-1996 *

, 1996–present

Parished

The ancient parish of Ormesby was divided into five civil parishes in 1866; Eston, Morton, Normanby, Ormesby and

Upsall Upsall is a hamlet in and civil parish in the Hambleton district of North Yorkshire, England. It is situated approximately four miles north-east of Thirsk. Upsall is part of the Upsall and Roxby estates owned by the Turton family. The populat ...

Urban districts of Eston, South Bank in Normanby as well as the parish of Normanby had a failed application to incorporate as a

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on 21 February 1912. The South Bank in Nomanby Urban District was merged into the Eston Urban District in 1915. After the districts merged, the Eston Urban District also had a failed application to incorporate as a municipal borough on 30 January 1926. The County Borough of Teesside was created in 1968: boroughs, districts and parishes in the area merged.

Unparished

In the 1974 local government reforms, the county borough was renamed as the county of Cleveland, expanded as well as restructured to a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county. Areas of former county borough became unparished while the expanded areas remained parished. The county of Cleveland existed between 1974 until 1996, its Langbaurgh borough becoming

. The borough of Redcar and Cleveland's

, outside of the former Redcar municipal borough unparished area, is the former Eston Urban District and the Ormesby ward.

References

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