Grangetown, North Yorkshire

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Grangetown
Slater Road shops, south Grangetown
Grangetown Location 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
UK Parliament	Redcar
List of places UK England Yorkshire 54°34′48″N 1°08′38″W / 54.580°N 1.144°W / 54.580; -1.144Coordinates: 54°34′48″N 1°08′38″W / 54.580°N 1.144°W / 54.580; -1.144

Grangetown is an area in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It forms part of the Teesside built-up area's Middlesbrough sub-division.^[2] The area is 3 miles (4.8 km) east of central Middlesbrough and 4 miles (6.4 km) from south west of central Redcar.^[2]

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[]

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The development of Grangetown was the discovery of ironstone in the in 1840, and the further development of the iron and steel industry along the riverbanks by Messrs. Bolckow and Vaughan. 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. 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.

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. 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

The modern centre is on Birtchington Avenue, the move in part due to the A66 being built through the area in the 1980s. 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.

Governance[]

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. The civil parish developed into the Eston Urban District. The district was mergrd into County Borough of Teesside in 1968 until 1974. 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.

Politics[]

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

2015 local elections results[]

Borough Council[]

In the 2015 local elections, the following members were returned to Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council:^[4]

Notable people[]

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• 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 House of Commons
• Wally K. Daly (born c. 1941), television and radio writer
• Alan Keen (1937-2011), former Labour Party MP
• Roy Chubby Brown (born Roy Vasey, 1945) stand up comedian^[5]

Location[]

	South Bank	Teesport
		Grangetown	Redcar
	Teesville	Eston

See also[]

• Eston
• Normanby
• Teesville

References[]

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