Banks Wood

Banks Wood is a forest in Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland, England. Banks Wood is situated nearby to the locality Tocketts Lythe, as well as near the village Upleatham.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Prior Pursglove and Stockton Sixth Form College and Gisborough Priory.

Prior Pursglove and Stockton Sixth Form College

College

Photo: Lemony123, Public domain.

Prior Pursglove and Stockton Sixth Form College is a sixth form college with sites in Guisborough and Stockton-on-Tees. The college is a result of a merger between Prior Pursglove College and Stockton Sixth Form College in May 2016.

Gisborough Priory

Monastery

Photo: Prioryman, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Gisborough Priory is a ruined Augustinian priory in Guisborough in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It was founded in 1119 as the Priory of St Mary by the Norman feudal magnate Robert de Brus, an ancestor of the Scottish king, Robert the Bruce.

Church of St Nicholas

Church

Photo: Simon Armstrong, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saltburn-by-the-Sea and Skelton-in-Cleveland.

Saltburn-by-the-Sea

Photo: Chris Combe, CC BY 2.0.

Saltburn-by-the-Sea is a seaside town in North Yorkshire, 12 miles east of Middlesbrough. It was a tiny fishing village until the 1860s when ironstone mining got started, and it was laid out as a resort and mineworkers' village on a grid pattern.

Skelton-in-Cleveland

Town

Photo: Mick Garratt, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Skelton-in-Cleveland or Skelton is a market town in the civil parish of Skelton and Brotton at the foot of the Cleveland Hills and about 10 miles east of Middlesbrough centre.

Marske

Village

Photo: Computerjoe, Public domain.

Marske-by-the-Sea is a village in the civil parish of Saltburn, Marske and New Marske, North Yorkshire, England, between the seaside resorts of Redcar and Saltburn-by-the-Sea. Marske comprises the wards of Longbeck and St Germains.

Banks Wood

Type: Forest
Location: Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude

54.5521° or 54° 33′ 8″ north

Longitude

-1.0271° or 1° 1′ 38″ west

Open location code

9C6WHX2F+V4

OpenStreetMap ID

way 68712088

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=wood

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