Redcar and Cleveland
| Borough of Redcar & Cleveland | ||
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| Unitary authority area, Borough | ||
Redcar High Street
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 Shown within North Yorkshire and England |
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom | |
| Constituent country | England | |
| Region | North East England | |
| City Region | Tees Valley | |
| Ceremonial County | North Yorkshire | |
| Admin. HQ | Redcar | |
| Government | ||
| • Type | Redcar & Cleveland Borough Council | |
| • Leadership: | Sue Jeffery (L) | |
| • Executive: | Labour (council NOC) | |
| • MPs: |
Tom Blenkinsop (L) Anna Turley (L) |
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| Area | ||
| • Total | 94.5 sq mi (244.8 km2) | |
| Area rank | 155th | |
| Population (mid-2015 est.) | ||
| • Total | 135,300 | |
| • Rank | Ranked 158th | |
| • Density | 1,400/sq mi (550/km2) | |
| Time zone | Greenwich Mean Time (UTC+0) | |
| • Summer (DST) | British Summer Time (UTC+1) | |
| ONS code | 00EE (ONS) E06000003 (GSS) |
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| Ethnicity | 98.9% White | |
| Website | redcar-cleveland.gov.uk | |
The borough of Redcar & Cleveland is a unitary authority area in the Tees Valley region of North Yorkshire in the North East of England, consisting of Redcar, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Guisborough, and small towns such as Brotton, Eston, Skelton and Loftus. It had a resident population of 135,200 in 2011,. It is represented in Parliament by Anna Turley (Labour) for the Redcar constituency and by Tom Blenkinsop (also Labour) for the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency.
The borough borders Scarborough and Hambleton in North Yorkshire, and the unitary authority areas of , Middlesbrough and Hartlepool.
The district was created in 1974 as the borough of Langbaurgh, one of four districts of the new non-metropolitan county of Cleveland. It was formed from the Coatham, Kirkleatham, Ormesby, Redcar and South Bank wards of the county borough of Teesside, along with Guisborough, Loftus, Saltburn and Marske-by-the-Sea, Eston Grange and Skelton and Brotton urban districts, from the North Riding of Yorkshire. The borough was named after the ancient Langbaurgh wapentake of Yorkshire. On 1 January 1988 the borough was renamed Langbaurgh-on-Tees.
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