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SKELTON AND BROTTON

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Originally appearing in Volume V25, Page 186 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SKELTON AND BROTTON , an See also:urban See also:district in the See also:Cleveland See also:parliamentary See also:division of the See also:North See also:Riding of See also:Yorkshire, See also:England, 17 M. E. by S. of See also:Middlesbrough by a See also:branch of the North-Eastern railway, with stations at Brotton and North Skelton. Pop. (1901) i3,240. This is one of the largest See also:town-See also:ships in the Cleveland ironstone district, and its See also:industrial See also:population is wholly employed in the quarries. The See also:modern Skelton See also:Castle incorporates See also:part of the See also:ancient stronghold of See also:Robert de Brus who held it from See also:William the Conqueror. A modern See also:church replaces the ancient one, of which there are ruins, and a See also:fine See also:Norman See also:font is preserved. The large ironstone quarries have not wholly destroyed the beauty of the district. The Cleveland hills rise sharply southward, to elevations some-times exceeding'000 ft., and are scored with deep and picturesque glens. On the See also:coast, which is cliff-See also:bound and fine, is the watering-See also:place of Saltburn by the See also:Sea.

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