BOOSBECK
This Viking place name means the stream near the Cow shed. Beck was the Viking word for a stream.
1856 Boosbeck was only on the small bridge over the Boos Beck, Boosbeck as we know it was called Kilton.
Lingdale is closely neighboured by the village of Boosbeck.
As at Lingdale there is a wide variety of shops in the High Street, an Institute, several clubs and Anglican and Non Conformist Churches.
MARGROVE PARK
MARGROVE PARK is a mining village between Boosbeck and Slapewath; the population is included with Stanghow. Here is a Church Mission room, also Wesleyan and Primitive Methodist chapels.
Wall letter Box cleared at 9.10a.m. & 8.10p.m. weekdays only.
Public Elementary School (mixed and infants), erected in 1891 and rebuilt in 1908; a school for infants was added in 1909; the school is now (1913) being enlarged for an additional 120 children; the school provides at present 224; average attendance 99 mixed & 102 infants; Matthew Ranson, master; Mrs Emma Ranson, infants' mistress.
CHARLTONS &
SLAPEWATH
CHARLTONS TERRACE OR SLAPEWATH is a mining village in this parish, 2 miles east of Guisborough and 2 1/2 miles south from Skelton. An institute, the gift of the late Rt. Hon. Sir B. Samuelson bat. P.O. (d. 1905). The population is included with Stanghow. Letters through Boosbeck. Post & M.O.Office, Charltons Terrace - Isaac Readman, postmaster. Letters arrive from Boosbeck at 8.25 a.m. & 7.45 p.m.; dispatched at 8.50 a.m and 7.50 p.m. weekdays; there is no Sunday delivery. Guisborough is the nearest telegraph office.
STANGHOW
Stanghow is over 600ft up across the valley of the Hagg Beck from Moorsholm. Its Scandinavian name probably signifies a boundary mark.
Near by is the ironstone mining township of Lingdale, a lively place with shops, a well established Institute built 1912 for indoor recreation and meetings and also a workingmens club.
There is a Church of England Mission church and places of worship for congregationalists, methodists and the Salvation Army.
MOORSHOLM
To the south of Kilton, Moorsholm village is attractively set on high ground between the dales of Hagg Beck and Liverton Beck. Under a mile to the South is the main moorland road from Whitby to Guisborough and the curiously shaped Freeborough Hill, 821 ft high and a grand view point, to the west the road runs past the large reservoir at Lockwood. Moorsholm is a farming parish, the village has a few shops, a post office and two inns. The small church is chapel of ease to Boosbeck church and there is a Methodist Church Hall.
At the time of the Doomsday survey, there were two manors here, held by the Earl of Marton.
William I granted them to the family of de Brus.
SKELTON
Skelton-in-Cleveland is a small town in the civil parish of Skelton and Brotton in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire in the North East of England. It is situated at the foot of theCleveland Hills and about 10 miles (16 km) east of Middlesbrough. Skelton is made up of North Skelton, Skelton Green and New Skelton. The first real mention of Skelton is in the Domesday Book, which talks about taxes collected.Skelton Castle was built in the 12th century by the de Brus (Bruce) family.
KILTON
Though a tiny village, Kilton forms one of the five parishes and one of the eight wards in the urban district.
It was one of the manors given by William I to Robert de Brus, a descendant of whom built a castle here. Other families associated with the overlordship of the manor includes the Lumleys, Tullies and Waughs and the ancient family of Thweng.
Kilton Castle has a fine situation on a high tongue of land above the Kilton beck. Though in ruins, the castle retains part of the watch tower and the main wall of the hall. The glen below for the whole of the course of the beck, is beautifully wooded.