Kirkleatham

Kirkleatham
Kirkleatham Free School of 1709, now Kirkleatham Old Hall Museum
Kirkleatham is located in North Yorkshire
Kirkleatham
Kirkleatham
Location within North Yorkshire
Population7,045 (2011.Ward)[1]
Unitary authority
Ceremonial county
Region
CountryEngland
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
Post townREDCAR
Postcode districtTS10
PoliceCleveland
FireCleveland
AmbulanceNorth East
List of places
UK
England
Yorkshire
54°35′00″N 1°05′00″W / 54.583333°N 1.083333°W / 54.583333; -1.083333

Kirkleatham is an area of Redcar in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire, England. It is approximately 4+12 miles (7 kilometres) north-northwest of Guisborough, and three miles (five kilometres) south of Redcar centre.[2][3] It was listed in the Domesday Book.[4]

The area has a collection of buildings that formed the Turner Estate, named after the Turner family who lived in the area from 1661.[2] It has one of the best collections of Georgian-style buildings in England.[5]

  1. ^ "Redcar and Cleveland ward population 2011". Neighbourhood Statistics. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  2. ^ a b "Kirkleatham". ihbc.org.uk. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
  3. ^ Baines, Edward (1823). History, directory & gazetteer, of the county of York: with select lists of the merchants & traders of London, and the principal commercial and manufacturing towns of England; and a variety of other commercial information: also a copious list of the seats of the nobility and gentry of Yorkshire. Vol. 2 (Digitized 31 July 2007 ed.). E. Baines. p. 469.
  4. ^ "Kirkleatham". Open Domesday. Retrieved 27 August 2019.
  5. ^ "Asset-stripping". Apollo Magazine. 9 August 2007. Archived from the original on 21 July 2010. Retrieved 17 August 2010.