Lockwood, North Yorkshire

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| official_name = Lockwood

| type = Civil parish

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| population = 3,708

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| civil_parish = Lockwood

| unitary_england = Redcar and Cleveland

| region = North East England

| lieutenancy_england = North Yorkshire

| constituency_westminster = Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland

| post_town = SALTBURN-BY-THE-SEA

| postcode_district = TS12

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Lockwood is a civil parish in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland with ceremonial association with North Yorkshire, England.

The parish was historically in the North Riding of Yorkshire until 1974, when it was transferred to Cleveland. In 1996, it was given to the newer county of North Yorkshire.{{cite web |title=East Cleveland Registration District |url=https://www.ukbmd.org.uk/reg/districts/east%20cleveland.html |website=ukmbd.org.uk |accessdate=14 April 2019}}

Description

The larger part of the parish (to the south) is rural with a small section of moorland in the North York Moors National Park. The parish covers over {{convert|3,950|hectare}} of land between Guisborough to the west, Skinningrove to the north, Staithes to the east and Commondale to the south.{{cite web |title=ONS Geography Linked Data {{!}} Lockwood |url=http://statistics.data.gov.uk/doc/statistical-geography/E04000264 |website=statistics.data.gov.uk |accessdate=14 April 2019}}

The A171 road runs diagonally north–south across the bottom corner of the parish and just south of Lockwood Beck is Lockwood Beck Reservoir.{{cite map|title =North York Moors - Eastern area |map =OL27 |year =2016 |scale =1:25,000 |series =Explorer |publisher =Ordnance Survey |isbn =9780319242667 }} The reservoir covers a surface area of {{convert|13.2|hectare|order=flip}} and has a perimeter of {{convert|1.5|km|0|order=flip}}. It was built in 1872 and feeds water into Lockwood Beck, which flows into the North Sea at Skinningrove as Kilton Beck.{{cite web |title=Recording our shared Industrial Heritage |url=http://www.industrialhistoryonline.co.uk/yiho/shortform.php?Trans_ID=NYK00707.669 |website=www.industrialhistoryonline.co.uk |accessdate=14 April 2019}}{{cite web |title=Lockwood Beck Reservoir overview |url=https://environment.data.gov.uk/catchment-planning/WaterBody/GB30329099 |website=environment.data.gov.uk |accessdate=14 April 2019}} The reservoir is noted for its fishery and wildlife, with nathusius’ pipistrelle bats and ospreys being recorded at the site.{{cite web |title=Nathusius' Pipistrelle |url=http://www.nhsn.ncl.ac.uk/interests/mammals/mammals-north-east/nathusius-pipistrelle/ |website=nhsn.ncl.ac.uk |accessdate=14 April 2019}}{{cite web |title=Cleveland Local Group - The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds |url=https://ww2.rspb.org.uk/groups/cleveland/places/163549/ |website=ww2.rspb.org.uk |accessdate=14 April 2019}}

The southern part of the parish is peppered with Neolithic Barrows and scheduled monuments,{{NHLE|desc=Round barrow on the summit of Brown Hill|num=1018769|grade=|accessdate=14 April 2019}}{{NHLE|desc=Two round barrows on Moorsholm Moor known as Black Howes|num=1015446|grade=|accessdate=14 April 2019}} whereas the north part is more populated and has a history of ironstone mining. Both Kilton and Lingdale had mines that supplied iron to the forges and smelters on Teesside.{{cite journal |last1=Chapman |first1=N A |last2=Chapman |first2=S A |title=Lumpsey Ironstone Mine |journal=British Mining: Memoirs of the Northern Mine Research Society |date=1985 |issue=28 |page=2 |publisher=Northern Mine Research Society |location=Skipton |issn=0308-2199}} These were linked via industrial railways into the national network at Boosbeck.{{cite book |last1=Bairstow |first1=Martin |title=Railways around Whitby: Scarborough - Whitby - Saltburn, Malton - Goathland - Whitby, Esk Valley, Forge Valley and Gilling lines |date=2008 |publisher=Martin Bairstow |location=Farsley |isbn=9781871944341 |page=32}}

The hamlet of Kilton has the now grade I listed ruins of a 13th-century castle.{{NHLE|desc=Remains of Kilton Castle|num=1136489|grade=I|accessdate=14 April 2019}} A timber constructed castle had existed on the site previously to the stone being built between 1190 and 1200. It was partially abandoned in the 14th century and by the 16th century, it was described as being worthless.{{NHLE|desc=Kilton Castle: tower keep castle 130m east of Castle Cottages|num=1018946|grade=|accessdate=14 April 2019}}

Lockwood is the location of one of three ventilation shafts for the new tunnel carrying polyhalite from Woodsmith Mine to Wilton on Teesside. Roadworks to accommodate new traffic on the A171 road were completed in 2017 with groundworks on the shaft and tunnel being started in 2018.{{cite news |last1=Cain |first1=James |title=Roadworks to start near Teesside as part of £2bn mine plan |url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/roadworks-near-teesside-start-next-12917572 |accessdate=14 April 2019 |work=Gazette Live |date=20 April 2017}}

The parish includes the hamlets and villages of;{{cite web |title=Your Parish - Lockwood Parish Council |url=http://www.lockwoodpc.co.uk/your-parish |website=www.lockwoodpc.co.uk |accessdate=14 April 2019}}

Demographics

The population of Lockwood ward in the Redcar and Cleveland Unitary authority taken at the 2011 census was 2,022.{{NOMIS2011|id=E05001513|title=Lockwood Ward (as of 2011)|accessdate=14 April 2019}}

References

External links

[http://www.lockwoodpc.co.uk/ Official Parish council webpage]

Category:Civil parishes in North Yorkshire

Category:Places in the Tees Valley

Category:Redcar and Cleveland