Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland

Location Map

Guisborough is a town in Redcar and Cleveland

Other current and historical names

Location and coordinates are for the approximate centre of Guisborough within this administrative area. Geographic features and populated places may cross administrative borders.

Guisborough in historic gazetteers

Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887). John Bartholomew

Guisbrough, market town, par., and township with ry. sta., North-Riding Yorkshire, in Cleveland dist., 9 miles SE. of Middlesbrough -- par., 13,166 ac., pop. 7188; town and township, 7014 ac., pop. 6616; P.O., T.O., 2 Banks. Market-day, Tuesday; contains the splendid ruins of Guisbrough Priory (1119). The working of Cleveland iron-ore employs most of the inhabitants.

Guisborough in the Domesday Book

A village in Langbaurgh hundred, in the county of Yorkshire.

Three manors recorded in Domesday.

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