Grosmont Village

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Situated in the heart of the Esk Valley Grosmont has a significant industrial history.

Local Amenities

A picturesque village set in woodlands and traditional farmland.

Grosmont is a village with an industrial past, amineties available include:

• Preserved steam railway.
• Public house.
• Craft shop.
• Cafe.
• car park.
• picnic area.
• General grocery shop.
• Toilets with disabled facilites.
• Guest houses and cottages for rent.
• post office

The prefix of the Post Code for Grosmont is YO22-5.

Location map

Grosmont is located in grid C2

Accommodation in Grosmont

Below are details of accommodation listed with us in the North Yorks Moors village of Grosmont.

The Esk Valley is situated at the heart of the North York Moors National Park where accommodation available includes self catering, Bed and Breakfast (B&B), holiday cottages, guest houses, hotels, farm house holidays as well as static and touring caravan and camping sites.

WELCOME TO CHARLIE'S VAN! Converted roadsman's living van providing comfortable self catering accommodation for two Situated within the Murk Esk Valley overlooking the steam railway, a perfect sanctuary. Solid fuel stove. Dogs most welcome. Perfect for a relaxing and unusual holiday. From the logbook: "The place to come for peace and quiet" "It's taken 56 years but at last Shangri-la has been found" "Less is definitely more! Back as soon as possible" "Delighted to find the donkeys remembered me" "Freshly laid boiled eggs on the picnic bench watching trains chug by" "Do we get van miles?" For a brochure please ring Phil or Tam Naylor on +44 (0)1947 895309. or write to them at: Tam and Phil Naylor Oak Tree House Esk Valley Grosmont Whitby N.Yorks YO22 5BG You can also e-mail them on: naylor58@yahoo.co.uk Facilities at CHARLIE'S VAN

Local Sights

Grosmont has a select few country walks.

Set in traditional farmland it is the heritage of Grosmont that people are drawn to.
Take your camera, as the view is wonderful if you visit Low Bride Stones at Sheep House Rigg on the edge of Goathland moor.

Community Groups

The following is are details of local none profit making Community Service Group or Registered Charitable Organisation, serving this community.

There are many community groups serving the area and it our intention to bring you details of their activities, if you are an organiser or member of a group or organisation and would like to see your details here, please contact us on enquiries@eskvalley.com

Whitby District/Esk valley youth club. Providing Youth Events and activities for the area, with past events including - Games and nonalcoholic cocktail bar in Grosmont village hall, Gospel concert in Whitby, skating at Billingham Forum and Sailing. For details contact Whitby District youth worker. Gaynor.hunt@care4free.net

Heritage

History

Grosmont was originally Grandimont, taking its name from a small priory founded about 1200 which once stood near the north bank of the Esk, but unlike the ironworks, the priory has left no visible sign of its existence. Uncertain too is the exact postion of the ford where the Roman road from the south crossed the river.

However, some notable relics of a far earlier period still remain on the moor about a mile to the east. The weathered monoliths known as the High Bride Stones form a line of five standing and many fallen stones, in close company with the great tumuli marking another ancient route. A second group, the Low Bride Stones, stand on a terrace at a lower level, making a rather confused pattern of smaller standing stones. The meaning and purpose of these prehistoric relics is a matter for the experts, but at least they bear witness to the immense time span of human occupation in this corner of Yorkshire.

Industry

During the early part of the 19th century Grosmont became an important centre for the mining and smelting of iron ore. The industry has long since ceased and the furnaces have been demolished but the waste lands still remain between the river and the railway station. Quarries and clay-pits for brickmaking have also contributed to local employment so that Grosmont still carries the unmistakable brand of its industrial past.

The Railway

In 1835, the Whitby and Pickering Railway, one of the earliest in Yorkshire, was completed between Whitby and Grosmont and soon extended to Pickering. In 1865 the Esk Valley branch arrived to make a junction at Grosmont. This line had started as the north Yorkshire and Cleveland Railway in 1854 and had reached Kildale three years later. The North Eastern Railway Company then took it over and extended it further by leisurely stages until its eventual link-up at Grosmont produced a through route between Teesside and Whitby.

Grosmont became a relatively important junction, and the station was quite a hive of industry in the ensuing years. With the coming of the motor vehicle and the subsequent decline of railways nationwide, the traffic through Grosmont Station became less and less, until finally in 1965, the notorious Dr. Beeching wielded his axe, and the link to York was broken.

On 3rd June 1967 a group of railway enthusiasts banded together to form the North Yorkshire Moors Railway with a view to re-opening the line from Grosmont to Pickering. This objective has been achieved and during the Spring and Summer months there is great activity. Tourists come from all over the country to enjoy what must be one of the most beautiful stretches of railway country in the world.

If you have any knowledge or have information about local history, folklore, geology & archaeology which you think would be of interest to other please contact us.