Normanby is an area 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 ...
,
North Yorkshire
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, England. A ward covering the area had a population of 6,930 at the
2011 census.
It is part of
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 ...
, which includes the area and the outlying settlements 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,
South Bank
The South Bank is an entertainment and commercial district in central London, next to the River Thames opposite the City of Westminster. It forms a narrow strip of riverside land within the London Borough of Lambeth (where it adjoins Alber ...
,
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, No ...
and part of
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 t ...
.
Ormesby's
ancient parish
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was split into civil parishes. As a
township
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Although the term is occasionally associated with an urban area, that tends to be an exception to the rule. In Australia, Ca ...
, Normanby
civil parish
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was formed with South Bank, it was under the South Bank in Normanby Urban District Council from 1894-1915.
The
urban district
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and parish merged into the
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 ...
which was abolished in 1968 with the district becoming part of the
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 ...
.
In 1974, the
county borough
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was abolished with the area remaining
unparished since the abolition.
History
![Normanby High Street Normanby, Redcar and Cleveland](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e9/Normanby_High_Street_Normanby%2C_Redcar_and_Cleveland.jpg)
In 1870–72, John Marius Wilson's Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales described Normanby like this:
Governance
Normanby is part of
Redcar
Redcar is a seaside town on the Yorkshire Coast in the Redcar and Cleveland unitary authority in the county of North Yorkshire, England. It is located east of Middlesbrough.
The Teesside built-up area's Redcar subdivision had a population of ...
parliamentary constituency and is represented by
Jacob Young (politician)
Jacob Young (born 2 February 1993) is a British Conservative Party politician serving as Assistant Government Whip since September 2022. He was elected as the member of Parliament (MP) for Redcar at the 2019 general election. He is the first C ...
(
Conservative Party (UK)
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) in the House of Commons.
Borough Council
In the 2019 local elections, the following members were returned to
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 ...
Borough Council:
In October 2022, Cllr McCormack died. A by-election is scheduled to be held on December 22nd, 2022.
Flatts Lane Woodland Country Park
![Flatts Lane Country Park Visitors Centre](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Flatts_Lane_Country_Park_Visitors_Centre.jpg)
Flatts Lane Woodland Country Park is an area of woodland in Normanby, sheltered from the urban sprawl below in the Tees Valley. It provides residents with a place to walk and exercise. It aims to give a 'countryside experience' without a long journey to reach it.
There is a visitors' centre – which stands on the site of the former Normanby
Brickworks
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. Some of the walkways in the park follow the course of the now defunct
Cleveland Railway, which served the brickworks. The visitors' centre has exhibits and information about
wildlife
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and conservation, as well as serving as a base for the information-giving Ranger.
The park boasts a variety of habitats, including both deciduous and coniferous woodlands, grassland and ponds. There are plenty of walks throughout the wooded areas of the park, an outdoor exercise area and a children's playground. There is a network of bridleways which cyclists and horseriders are welcome to use.
In the past, Flatts Lane veered from its present route and crossed the land now occupied by the Country Woodland Park. It was used by monks, farmers and traders to carry goods between markets and coastal ports. The cobbled path can still be seen in some places as it runs across the site. Godfalter Hill is a prominent landmark topped by its distinctive beech trees making it visible for miles around.
Flatts Lane Woodland Country Park, in Normanby, is an easy starting point for walks to
Eston Nab
Eston Nab is a local landmark to those who live along the River Tees, in north-east England.
A nab is a rocky promontory, or outcrop, and Eston Nab, marking the highest point – at – on the escarpment which forms Eston Hills, appears as a ...
; the path leading to the high ground of Eston Moor forms a less severe incline than more popular routes from
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 ...
. It is also on the long-distance path called the Tees Link; the path travels along the route of a former railway which served Normanby Brickworks.
Landmarks
Normanby Hall
Normanby Hall is a classic English mansion, located near the village of Burton-upon-Stather, north of Scunthorpe, North Lincolnshire.
History
The present hall was built in 1825–30 to the designs of Robert Smirke for Sir Robert Sheffie ...
is a mansion on the western side of Normanby. The manor of Normanby was held at an early period by the
de Brus family
Clan Bruce ( gd, Brùs) is a Lowlands Scottish clan. It was a Royal House in the 14th century, producing two kings of Scotland (Robert the Bruce and David II of Scotland), and a disputed High King of Ireland, Edward Bruce.
Origins
The surname ' ...
, of Skelton Castle; and subsequently passed to
Marmaduke de Thweng. Later it came into the possession of the
Percys, and then, of the Moneys.
At the beginning of the eighteenth century, the estate belonged to William Pennyman, Esq. When he died, in 1718, buried at Eston Church, his daughters Elizabeth and Joanna, married two brothers – Rev. William Consett and Captain Matthew Consett, sons of William Consett of Linthorpe.
The manor lands were split, Reverend William Consett taking the eastern part of the estate, upon which he built the elegant and commodious Normanby House, which became known as the Manor House. The other brother, Captain Matthew Consett, took the part of the manor with the ancient Hall.
The Hall with a
moiety
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Chemistry
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** Moiety conservation, conservation of a subgroup in a chemical species
Anthropology
* Moiety (kinship), either of two groups into which a society is ...
of the estate was purchased in 1748, by Ralph Jackson, on the death of Captain Consett. The common fields around it were enclosed, in 1790, to become parkland for the mansion. It descended through the Jackson family, in the late 1880s, to Major
Charles Ward-Jackson M.P., who was lord of the manor, and who died in 1930.
In the twentieth century, it came into the hands of Charles Amer, a former jazzband leader (Charles Amer Orchestra),
Middlesbrough F.C. Chairman, owner of the
Coatham Hotel, in Redcar, the Marton Hotel and Country Club and, later, property developer. Amer later sold the parkland belonging to the Hall and houses were built. The Hall itself, after several years as a retirement home, is now unoccupied and in a state of disrepair.
Eston Cemetery
![CWGC War Graves Eston Cemetery 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b8/CWGC_War_Graves_Eston_Cemetery_1.jpg)
Eston Cemetery is one of those places in the area which was probably named at the time of the Eston Urban District Council, which included Normanby. Nevertheless, Eston Cemetery can be said to be in Normanby.
Still in active use, it was established in 1863, enlarged in 1882, and built as an extension to the pre-reformation church of St Helen, which was one of the many churches belonging to
Gisborough Priory
Gisborough Priory is a ruined Augustinian priory in Guisborough in the current borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1119 as the Priory of St Mary by the Norman feudal magnate Robert de Brus, also an ances ...
. St Helen's has since been dismantled and rebuilt at
Beamish Museum
Beamish Museum is the first regional open-air museum, in England, located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley, in County Durham, England. Beamish pioneered the concept of a living museum. By displaying duplicates or replaceable items, it wa ...
. Names on the gravestones tell the story of the families whose daily lives created the history of the wider area, throughout the twentieth century until the present.
![William Henry Short VC monument 3](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/99/William_Henry_Short_VC_monument_3.jpg)
The
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
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is responsible for commemorating all Commonwealth war dead individually and equally, and to this end, war graves with uniform headstones, set in well kept lawns, can be found in cemeteries throughout the
British Commonwealth
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. The Commission lists ninety-eight such graves, at Eston Cemetery, from the First and Second World Wars.
Having more than 40 war graves, a
Cross of Sacrifice
The Cross of Sacrifice is a Commonwealth war memorial designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield for the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission). It is present in Commonwealth war cemeteries containing 40 or ...
designed by architect
Reginald Blomfield
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Early life and career
Blomfield was born at Bow rectory in Devon, w ...
has been erected. It shows a simple cross embedded with a bronze sword and mounted on an octagonal base to represent the faith of the majority of commemorations. It can be seen in front of the West Lodge.
The cemetery also contains the memorial obelisk to
William Henry Short
William Henry Short VC (4 February 1884 – 6 August 1916) was an English recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Sho ...
VC (4 February 1884 – 6 August 1916) who was an English recipient of the
Victoria Cross
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, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and
Commonwealth
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forces. He was awarded the medal after being killed showing ''gallantry and devotion to duty'' at the
Battle of Contalmaison, during the
Somme Offensive
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, in 1916.
Zoë's Place
![Zoe's Place logo 1](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/c9/Zoe%27s_Place_logo_1.jpg)
Normanby is home to
Zoë's Place, one of only two baby hospices in England. It offers
palliative
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and
respite care for babies and infants up to five years old, who have life-limiting or terminal illnesses.
It was opened by
Ann Widdecombe
Ann Noreen Widdecombe (born 4 October 1947) is a British politician, author and television personality. She was Member of Parliament (MP) for Maidstone and The Weald, and the former Maidstone constituency, from 1987 to 2010 and Member of the E ...
in 2004. The
hospice
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occupies the former Crossbeck
Convent
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which was bought in 1919 to serve as a home to the Catholic religious community of the
Sisters of Mercy
The Sisters of Mercy is a religious institute of Catholic women founded in 1831 in Dublin, Ireland, by Catherine McAuley. As of 2019, the institute had about 6200 sisters worldwide, organized into a number of independent congregations. They a ...
.
Sport
There is a cricket club, Normanby Hall Cricket Club, alongside Normanby Hall. It is a member of the
England and Wales Cricket Board
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and has teams competing in the
North Yorkshire & South Durham Premier Division, Division 1 and Sunday Division 1. At junior level, teams compete in under 11, under 13, under 15 and under 17 sections.
Normanby United Football Club was founded in 1905, it later became known as
Eston United. The club was dissolved in 1927.
Notable people
*
Charles Ward-Jackson
Major Charles Lionel Atkins Ward-Jackson (1869 – 28 April 1930) was an early 20th century British Conservative Party Member of Parliament.
Early life
Ward-Jackson was born in 1869, the son of a Church of England clergyman. He received his form ...
–
Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
MP, inherited Normanby Hall. Served as a Major in the
Second Boer War
The Second Boer War ( af, Tweede Vryheidsoorlog, , 11 October 189931 May 1902), also known as the Boer War, the Anglo–Boer War, or the South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer Republics (the Sout ...
and
First World War
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.
*
John Raybould (born 1934), first-class cricketer
*
Rob Smedley
Rob Smedley (born 28 November 1973) is a British automotive engineer who works for the organizers of Formula One motor racing after several years working within the Williams, Ferrari and Jordan Formula One teams.
Biography
Smedley was born and ...
– Former Head of Vehicle Performance
Williams Grand Prix Engineering
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James Allen on Formula 1 website - Smedley finally makes Williams switch as head of vehicle performance.
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See also
* Marske Hall
Marske Hall is a 17th-century former mansion house, now a Valorum Care Group residential care home, in Marske-by-the-Sea, Redcar and Cleveland, England. It has Grade I listed building status.
The building is constructed of squared stone in t ...
* Ormesby Hall
Ormesby Hall, a Grade I listed building, is a predominantly 18th-century mansion house built in the Palladian style and completed in 1754. It is situated in Ormesby, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire in the north-east of England.
The home of the ...
References
External links
Normanby history group website
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Places in the Tees Valley
Areas within Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough
Redcar and Cleveland
Villages in North Yorkshire
Greater Eston