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unusual facts about Guisborough


John Fairfax-Blakeborough

Major John Fairfax-Blakeborough O.B.E., M.C. (b. Guisborough 16 January 1883; d. Westerdale 1 January 1976) a.k.a. "Jack" was an author, folklorist and writer, and a man of many parts.


Adam Sedbar, Abbot of Jervaulx

The Prior of Bridlington suffered the same fate on the same day, as had the Abbot of Fountains and Prior of Guisborough a few days earlier.

Chris Tomlinson

He attended Nunthorpe Secondary School, where he still holds many of its year group records for triple and long jump, before attending Prior Pursglove College in Guisborough.

Hallaton Helmet

It has a prominent browguard, the shape of which is similar to that of the 3rd-century Guisborough Helmet, discovered in 1864 near Guisborough in Redcar and Cleveland.

Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway

The line was opened in 1853 to an iron ore mine at Codhill, and passenger services started a year later, stopping in the villages of Ormesby, Nunthorpe and Pinchinthorpe, before terminating at Guisborough.

North York Moors

More centrally, a minor road departs from the A170 at Keldholme and passes through Castleton before joining the A171 which connects Whitby and Guisborough.

Peter Garthwaite

Peter Fawcitt Garthwaite who was born 22 October 1909, Guisborough, North Yorkshire, England and died 13 May 2001, Hovingham, North Yorkshire, England, was a forester who worked in a wide range of settings - imperial and national, public and private.

Whale Hill

Arriva and Leven Valley both run services to the local towns, and also outlying villages such as Guisborough, and Saltburn.

Whitby, Redcar and Middlesbrough Union Railway

Loftus was connected to the rail system by the 1870s via an extension of the Cleveland Railway: both the Cleveland Railway and the Middlesbrough and Guisborough Railway were constructed in the 1860s connecting Middlesbrough to Guisborough.


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