Guisborough

Locality
Coordinates	54.536, -1.049439
Adm. div.	North Riding of Yorkshire
Vicinity	Redcar and Cleveland
Type	Settlement
Interest	Literary locale
Status	Extant
First Record	c. 1650

Loading map...

{"minzoom":false,"maxzoom":false,"mappingservice":"leaflet","width":"34%","height":"400px","centre":false,"title":"","label":"","icon":"","lines":[],"polygons":[],"circles":[],"rectangles":[],"copycoords":false,"static":false,"zoom":false,"defzoom":9,"layers":["OpenStreetMap","NLS","Stamen.Terrain"],"image layers":[],"overlays":[],"resizable":false,"fullscreen":false,"scrollwheelzoom":true,"cluster":false,"clustermaxzoom":20,"clusterzoomonclick":true,"clustermaxradius":80,"clusterspiderfy":true,"geojson":"","clicktarget":"","imageLayers":[],"locations":[{"text":"","title":"","link":"","lat":54.536,"lon":-1.049439,"icon":""}],"imageoverlays":null}

Guisborough.

File:Guisbrough from Highcliff Nab.jpg

Guisborough from Highcliffe Nab / MarcusBritish.

By Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2014-07-11. Revised by Henrik Thiil Nielsen, 2017-06-09.

The home of the villain of the ballad Robin Hood and Guy of Gisborne is usually taken to be Gisburn in the Ribble Valley (Lancashire, formerly the West Riding of Yorkshire), but Guisborough in the North Riding of Yorkshire is certainly also a possibility. From the 11th to the mid-19th century, the form 'Guisborough' ('Guisbrough' etc.) had strong competition from the form 'Gisburn' ('Gyseburne' etc.) For Gisburn in the ballad, see further the entry on Gisburn.

Gazetteers

• Not included in Dobson, R. B., ed.; Taylor, J., ed. Rymes of Robyn Hood: an Introduction to the English Outlaw (London, 1976), pp. 293-311.

Sources

• Pease, Alfred Edward, compil.; Fairfax-Blakeborough, John, annot. A Dictionary of the Dialect of the North Riding of Yorkshire (Whitby: Horne & Son, 1928), 'Notes on the Nomenclature of the Town of Guisbrough' (unpaginated appendix).
• Smith, A.H. The Place-Names of the North Riding of Yorkshire (English Place-Name Society, vol. 5) (Cambridge, 1928), pp. 149-50.

Background

• Wikipedia: Guisborough.

Also see

• Places named Gisburn.

Notes

North Riding of Yorkshire place-namesTemplate:BeforeNavTemplate:NavTemplate:Next

Template:BeforeNavTemplate:NavTemplate:PreviousYorkshire place-namesTemplate:BeforeNavTemplate:NavTemplate:Next

Template:BeforeNavTemplate:NavTemplate:PreviousPlace-namesTemplate:BeforeNavTemplate:NavTemplate:Next

"th" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 17.