Margrove Park

54°31′55″N 0°59′24″W / 54.532°N 0.990°W / 54.532; -0.990

Margrove Park is a village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.[1] It is at the eastern end of a broad valley extending eastwards from Nunthorpe and is about 2 miles (3.2 km) east of Guisborough.[2][3] The terraces of houses were built for the miners who worked the adjacent ironstone mine, which was called Stanghow Mine and closed in 1925.[4][5] Prior to the arrival of ironstone mining, the area was a deer park probably belonging to the owners of Skelton Castle.[6] During the nineteenth century, a brickworks was located in the settlement known as Squire Wharton's Brickworks.[2]

Margrove Park first appears in historical documents c. 1349 as Maugrey park with deer, and was part of the Langbaurgh Wapentake.[7] The settlement used to be in the civil parish of Skelton-in-Cleveland and part of the Skelton & Brotton Urban District.[8][9] In 1974, Margrove Park as part of the Skelton civil parish was moved into the County of Cleveland.[10] It is now in the civil parish of Lockwood, and is represented at Westminster as part of the Middlesbrough and South East Cleveland Constituency.[11]

Margrove Ponds nature reserve is to the north of the settlement. The nature reserve is maintained by the Tees Valley Wildlife Trust, and the ponds are thought to have been created by the weight of shale heaps from the adjacent ironstone mine pressing down on the land.[12][13]

References

  1. ^ Ordnance Survey: Landranger map sheet 94 Whitby & Esk Dale (Robin Hood’s Bay) (Map). Ordnance Survey. 2012. ISBN 9780319228999.
  2. ^ a b Atkinson, Frank (1974). The industrial archaeology of north-east England (the counties of Northumberland and Durham and the Cleveland district of Yorkshire). Newton Abbot: David & Charles. p. 321. ISBN 0-7153-6740-4.
  3. ^ "Redcar & Cleveland Local Development Framework" (PDF). redcar-cleveland.gov.uk. March 2010. p. 24. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  4. ^ *Tuffs, Peter (1996). Catalogue of Cleveland Ironstone Mines. Guisborough: Tuffs. p. 39. OCLC 35135777.
  5. ^ "Durham Mining Museum - Stanghow (Ironstone)". www.dmm.org.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  6. ^ Rimington, P. C. (1975). "The early deer parks of North-East Yorkshire". Transactions of the Scarborough and District Archaeological Society. 3 (18). Scarborough: Scarborough Archaeological and Historical Society: 9–11. ISSN 1474-1229. OCLC 2324885.
  7. ^ Page, William (1968). The Victoria history of the county of York, North Riding volume 2. London: Dawsons of Pall Mall for the University of London Institute of Historical Research. p. 406. ISBN 0712903100.
  8. ^ "Genuki: Skelton In Cleveland Parish information from Bulmers' 1890., Yorkshire (North Riding)". www.genuki.org.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  9. ^ Skelton & Brotton Urban District Council at the Internet Archive
  10. ^ Guide No. 6: North Yorkshire Gazetteer of Townships and Parishes. Northallerton: North Yorkshire County Council. 2021 [1986]. pp. 3, 18. ISBN 0 906035 29 5.
  11. ^ "Election Maps". www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2025. Click on the boundary tab on the left and activate Civil Parish and Westminster Constituencies
  12. ^ "Margrove Ponds". teeswildlife.org. Retrieved 26 August 2025.
  13. ^ "Margrove Ponds Nature Reserve | NYMNP". www.northyorkmoors.org.uk. Retrieved 26 August 2025.

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