Grosmont

My Dad's side of the family lived Whitby, Lythe, Hinderwell and Grosmont going way back into the 1700s until my grandfather had to leave due to unemployment.

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The King, who had been confronting Henry of Grosmont in Normandy, arranged the bulk of his army at Chartres to the north of the besieged Tours, dismissing around 15,000–20,000 of his low-grade infantry to increase the speed of his forces.

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Shrewsbury, before he was sixteen; and there is some reason for supposing that he commanded the royal forces in the Battle of Grosmont, fought and won in his eighteenth year.

The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 78, April, 1864 Various

If the wind were fair the coach would run to Grosmont by itself, after that one horse took the coach to Whitby.

The Evolution of an English Town Gordon Home 1923

The confluence with the Esk at Grosmont is lost in a haze of smoke and a confusion of roofs and railway lines; and the course of the larger river in the direction of Glaisdale is also hidden behind the steep slopes of Egton

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

The steep climb from the river and railway has kept off those modern influences which have made Sleights and Grosmont architecturally depressing, and thus we find a simple village on the edge of the heather, with picturesque stone cottages and pretty gardens, free from companionship with the painfully ugly modern stone house, with its thin slate roof.

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

Grosmont was the birthplace of the Cleveland Ironworks, and was at one time more famous than Middlesbrough.

Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923

Creswell, and Grosmont, never attained any importance and were occupied by a very small number of monks.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913

The late Mr. Waddington of Grosmont, near Whitby, says he visited Staithes in 1887 and found the original site covered by deep water.

The Life of Captain James Cook Kitson, Arthur 1907

Henry of Grosmont, Earl of Derby, then Earl afterwards Duke of

The History of England From the Accession of Henry III. to the Death of Edward III. (1216-1377) Reginald Lane Poole 1892