Dormanstown
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| Dormanstown | |
  Dormanstown shown within North Yorkshire |
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| OS grid reference | |
|---|---|
| Unitary authority | Redcar and Cleveland |
| Ceremonial county | North Yorkshire |
| Region | North East |
| Constituent country | England |
| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Post town | REDCAR |
| Postcode district | TS10 |
| Dialling code | 01642 |
| Police | Cleveland |
| Fire | Cleveland |
| Ambulance | North East |
| European Parliament | North East England |
| UK Parliament | Redcar |
| List of places: UK • England • Yorkshire | |
Dormanstown is a place in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.
Named after and built by the Dorman Long iron and steelworks in the 20th century, the area was originally built on the doorstep of the popular seaside town ‘Redcar’ for Dormans hundreds of steel workers and their families. The company built the Sydney harbour bridge and the steelworks was for some time considered the best in the world.
The workers were well looked after by Dorman and it brought new opportunities and wealth for the people of the area.
Now steeped in history, Dormanstown has evolved in to a small suburb of Redcar with most of the privately owned houses being built during the 1960s.
During the 1970s and 1980s Dormanstown may have been considered one of the poorer areas of Redcar, with little investment and low unemployment rates which began to give Dormanstown an undeserved reputation with others in the Redcar area.
However as Redcar has grown in popularity throughout the 1990s and 2000s, Dormanstown has seen a wealth of investment and regeneration from the local council and businesses which has made it much more a part of Redcar and a far more desirable place to live.
Most residents now privately own their properties, old council estates are disappearing rapidly (as is the case for most of Redcar) and modern apartments have recently been built in 2007/2008 specifically aimed at the younger generations in the area to aid them in to the local housing market.
Redcar is seeing a lot of development at the moment and Dormanstown is very much apart of this. New schools and colleges, new libraries with free to use PC’s and internet access (originally funded by the Bill Gates fund and now part of the ‘peoples network’ provided by Redcar and Cleveland council), cleaner streets, new street lighting, modern neighbourhood watch schemes and new shopping outlets.
Today, this suburb of Redcar is very much a part of the evolving Redcar area and a popular relocation choice for young professionals buying their first house and starting out in work in the area.
[edit] Bibliography
- Pevsner, Nikolaus (1966). Yorkshire: the North Riding. New Haven: Yale University Press.
- Stratton, Michael (2000). Twentieth Century Industrial Archeology. London: Taylor & Francis.
| Locations in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. |
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