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GUISBOROUGH, or GUISBROUGH

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 699 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUISBOROUGH, or GUISBROUGH , a See also:market See also:town in the See also:Cleveland See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:North See also:Riding of See also:York-See also:shire, See also:England, Io m. E.S.E. of See also:Middlesbrough by a See also:branch of the North-Eastern railway. Pop. of See also:urban See also:district (1901), 5645. It is well situated in a narrow, fertile valley at the N. See also:foot of the Cleveland Hills. The See also:church of St See also:Nicholas is Perpendicular, greatly restored. Other buildings are the town See also:hall, and the See also:modern buildings of the See also:grammar school founded in 1561. Ruins of an Augustinian priory, founded in 1129, are beautifully situated near the eastern extremity of the town. The church contains some See also:fine Decorated See also:work, and the See also:chapter See also:house and parts of the conventual buildings may be traced. Considerable fragments of See also:Norman and transitional work remain. Among the historic personages who were buried within its walls was See also:Robert See also:Bruce, See also:lord of Annandale, the competitor for the See also:throne of See also:Scotland with See also:John See also:Baliol, and the grandfather of See also:King Robert the Bruce. About 1 m. S.E. of the town there is a sulphurous See also:spring discovered in 1822.

The district neighbouring to Guisborough is See also:

rich in See also:iron-See also:stone. Its working forms the See also:chief See also:industry of the town, and there are also tanneries and breweries.

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