Greyhound Course Wood

Greyhound Course Wood is a forest in Guisborough, Redcar and Cleveland, England. Greyhound Course Wood is situated nearby to the hamlet Dunsdale, as well as near Mount Pleasant.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Prior Pursglove and Stockton Sixth Form College and Wilton Castle.

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.

Wilton Castle

Photo: Paul Buckingham, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Wilton Castle is an early 19th-century mansion, built on the site of a medieval castle, now converted into residential apartments, situated at Wilton, in Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II listed building.

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.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Saltburn-by-the-Sea and Eston.

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.

Eston

Suburb

Photo: JohnYeadon, CC BY 3.0.

Eston is a former industrial town in the Redcar and Cleveland unitary area of North Yorkshire, England. It is part of Greater Eston, which includes the outlying settlements of Grangetown, Normanby, South Bank, Teesville and part of Ormesby.