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Area of Redcar in North Yorkshire, England

Warrenby

Warrenby

Key facts

instance ofvillage
countryUnited Kingdom
located in the administrative territorial entityRedcar and Cleveland
All data from the card 12
OS grid reference
NZ582249
Unitary authority
Redcar and Cleveland
Ceremonial county
North Yorkshire
Region
North East
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Post town
REDCAR
Postcode district
TS10
Dialling code
01642
Police
Cleveland
Fire
Cleveland
Ambulance
North East

Warrenby is a depopulated area of Redcar in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is a light industrial area and is no longer residential.

Warrenby is on the edge of Coatham Marsh, and was originally called Warrenstown. It was founded in 1873, to provide housing for workers at the nearby ironworks of Downey & Co and Walker Maynard.

In the Warrenby Disaster of 1895, eleven men, many from the village of Warrenby, were killed in a boiler explosion at the works.

Warrenby Halt railway station was opened in 1920 as a halt on the Middlesbrough & Redcar Railway. This was to serve the nearby Dorman Long steelworks. In 1978, the railway was realigned to make way for the expansion of Redcar steel plant, and so the halt was demolished.

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