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GUISBOROUGH, or GUISBROUGH

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 699 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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GUISBOROUGH, or GUISBROUGH  , a market
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town in the Cleveland
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parliamentary division of the North
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Riding of York-
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shire, England, Io m . E.S.E. of
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Middlesbrough by a branch of the North-Eastern railway . Pop. of urban
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district (1901), 5645 . It is well situated in a narrow, fertile valley at the N.
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foot of the Cleveland Hills . The church of St Nicholas is Perpendicular, greatly restored . Other buildings are the town hall, and the
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modern buildings of the grammar school founded in 1561 . Ruins of an Augustinian priory, founded in 1129, are beautifully situated near the eastern extremity of the town . The church contains some
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fine Decorated
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work, and the chapter house and parts of the conventual buildings may be traced . Considerable fragments of Norman and transitional work remain . Among the historic personages who were buried within its walls was Robert Bruce, lord of Annandale, the competitor for the
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throne of Scotland with John Baliol, and the grandfather of King Robert the Bruce . About 1 m . S.E. of the town there is a sulphurous spring discovered in 1822 .

The district neighbouring to

Guisborough is rich in iron-stone . Its working forms the chief industry of the town, and there are also tanneries and breweries .

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