Loftus
Loftus is a market town and civil parish in the Redcar and Cleveland borough of North Yorkshire, England. The town is located north of the North York Moors and sits between Whitby and Skelton-in-Cleveland.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 4,820 residents
- Description: town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England
- Also known as: “Lofthouse” and “Loftus, North Yorkshire”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Loftus Town Hall and Church of St Leonard.
Loftus Town Hall
Town hall
Photo: John Slater, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Loftus Town Hall is a municipal building in Water Lane in Loftus, North Yorkshire, England. The structure, which accommodates the offices and meeting place of Loftus Town Council, is a grade II listed building.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Liverton Mines and Carlin How.
Liverton Mines
Hamlet
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Liverton Mines is a village in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is surrounded by large, local towns Middlesbrough, Redcar, Guisborough and Whitby.
Carlin How
Village
Carlin How is a village in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.
Skinningrove
Village
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Skinningrove is a village in the civil parish of Loftus, in the Redcar and Cleveland district, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Its name is of Old Norse etymology and is thought to mean skinners' grove or pit.
Loftus
- Categories: civil parish and locality
- Location: Loftus, Redcar and Cleveland, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.5537° or 54° 33′ 13″ northLongitude
-0.88528° or 0° 53′ 7″ westPopulation
4,820Elevation
246 feet (75 metres)Open location code
9C6XH437+FVOpenStreetMap ID
node 31475643OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
2643773Wikidata ID
Q2400875
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In Other Languages
From Asturian to Welsh—“Loftus” goes by many names.
- Asturian: “Loftus”
- Basque: “Loftus (Iparraldeko Yorkshire)”
- Basque: “Loftus”
- Cebuano: “Loftus”
- Dutch: “Loftus”
- French: “Loftus”
- Irish: “Loftus, Yorkshire Thuaidh”
- Irish: “Loftus”
- Italian: “Loftus”
- Japanese: “ロフタス”
- Ladin: “Loftus”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Loftus i North Yorkshire”
- Persian: “لوفتوس، یورکشر شمالی”
- Polish: “Loftus”
- Romanian: “Loftus, North Yorkshire”
- South Azerbaijani: “لوفتوس، قوزئی یورکشر”
- Swedish: “Loftus, North Yorkshire”
- Swedish: “Loftus”
- Turkish: “Loftus, North Yorkshire”
- Volapük: “Loftus”
- Welsh: “Loftus, Gogledd Swydd Efrog”
- Welsh: “Loftus”
- “Loftus”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Loftus”. Photo: Stephen McCulloch, CC BY-SA 2.0.