Grangetown 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 ...

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, England. The area is east of Middlesbrough and from south-west 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 populatio ...

. 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 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 includ ...

, Normanby,

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 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 Bolckow, Vaughan & Co., Ltd was an English ironmaking and mining company founded in 1864, based on the partnership since 1840 of its two founders, Henry Bolckow and John Vaughan. The firm drove the dramatic growth of Middlesbrough and the prod ...

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 of St Matthew, which was built in 1901, was demolished in 1979 and replaced with another building, the St Hilda of Whitby Church. 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

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, which was capable of outputting at 11,000 volts. It closed in 1937. British Trolleybus - Teesside - geograph

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, with the steel company Bolckow Vaughan expanding their housing under the name of ''Grangetown Garden Village''. The population in 1939 was approximately 9,000. After the war, council house building was extended and in the 1950s reached Fabian Road. Grangetown Boys Club 1

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. Victorian terraced-houses, near heavy industry along the

River Tees The River Tees (), in Northern England, rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the North Pennines and flows eastwards for to reach the North Sea between Hartlepool and Redcar near Middlesbrough. The modern day history of the river has bee ...

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.

Governance

It was historically part of the ancient Langbaurgh Wapentake in the

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area of Yorkshire in its North Riding. The ancient parish of Ormesby was split into civil parishes, the area became part of the

parish. The civil parish developed into the Eston Urban District. The district was merged into

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 1968 until 1974. The area was then placed into the Borough of Langbaurgh's

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until 1988 when it became the Borough of Langbaurgh-on-Tees, which became the present

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Politics

Grangetown is part of

constituency, and is represented by

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Member

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in the House of Commons.

2019 local elections results

Borough Council

In the 2019 local elections, the following members were returned to

Borough Council:

Notable people

* Eddie Latheron (1887–1917), Blackburn Rovers and

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footballer * William Henry Short V.C. (1884–1916), footballer and

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VC recipient * Horace King, Baron Maybray-King (1901–1986), former Labour Party MP and Speaker of the House of Commons * Wally K. Daly (1940–2020), television and radio writer *

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(1937–2011), former Labour Party MP *

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References

Sources

External links

Grangetown in Past Times

Descriptions from Bulmer's History and Directory of North Yorkshire (1890). Retrieved 8 February 2006 {{authority control Places in the Tees Valley Areas within Middlesbrough Redcar and Cleveland Villages in North Yorkshire Greater Eston