Guisborough

Guisborough, a market-town of the North Riding of Yorkshire, 9 miles by rail ESE. of Middlesborough, lies at the foot of the Cleveland Hills, in the midst of the iron-mining district. The earliest alum-works in England were established here about the year 1600. Here too are the remains of a priory built in 1119 by Robert de Brus, and at the time of the Reformation one of the wealthiest monastic institutions in the kingdom. Pop. (1851) 2062; (1881) 6616; (1891) 5623.