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Kirkleatham
Kirkleatham in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Kirkleatham is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Kirkleatham is an area of Redcar in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland in North Yorkshire, England. It is approximately 4+1⁄2 miles (7 kilometres) north-northwest of Guisborough, and three miles (five kilometres) south of Redcar centre. It was listed in the Domesday Book of 1086. The area has a collection of buildings that formed the Turner Estate, named after the Turner family who lived in the area from 1661. It has one of the best collections of Georgian-style buildings in England.
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Background
History
The name of the village comes from the old Norse ‘kirk’ (church) and ‘hlíð’ (slopes). Literally, "churchslopes." It is thought there has been a church on the site since the 9th century AD, as a location where the body of Saint Cuthbert rested before it was taken to Durham. The parish church is named Saint Cuthbert’s from that connection. The parish records begin in 1559. The village is mentioned in the Domesday Book of 1086. "It had a recorded population of 9.1 households in 1086, putting it in the smallest 40% of settlements recorded in Domesday, and is listed under 4 owners in Domesday Book." It had, apparently, been laid waste during the Harrying of the North. that now serves as the…
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- Coordinates
- 54.5833, -1.0833
- Official site
- www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk
Sources
- wikidata: Q6415752 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Kirkleatham (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is Kirkleatham?
- Kirkleatham is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5833°, -1.0833°.