Skinningrove
Skinningrove is a village in the civil parish of Loftus, in the Redcar and Cleveland district, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.

Skinningrove is a village in the civil parish of Loftus, in the Redcar and Cleveland district, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. Its name is of Old Norse origin and is thought to mean skinners' grove or pit.
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Worth seeing in and around Skinningrove
4 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Kilton Castle
Kilton Castle is a ruined castle overlooking the valley of Kilton Beck, near to the village of Kilton in the historic county of the North Riding of Yorkshire in England. The castle was built in the 12th century and was described as being in a ruinous state by the 14th century, with it being totally abandoned by the 16th century.
2.6 km · castle in North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 02Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery
The Street House Anglo-Saxon cemetery is an Anglo-Saxon burial ground, dating to the second half of the 7th century AD, that was discovered at Street House Farm near Loftus, in the unitary authority of Redcar and Cleveland, England. Monuments dating back as far as 3300 BC are located in the vicinity of the cemetery, which was discovered after aerial photography revealed the existence of an Iron Age rectangular enclosure.
2.9 km · cemetery in North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 03Kilton Viaduct
Kilton Viaduct was a railway viaduct that straddled Kilton Beck, near to Loftus, in North Yorkshire, England. The viaduct was opened to traffic in 1867, however in 1911, with the viaduct suffering subsidence from the nearby ironstone mining, the whole structure was encased in waste material from the mines creating an embankment which re-opened fully to traffic in 1913.
1.6 km · viaduct in Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 04Town Hall
Loftus Town Hall is a municipal building in Water Lane in Loftus, North Yorkshire, England. The structure, which accommodates the offices and meeting place of Loftus Town Council, is a grade II listed building.
2.1 km · town hall in Loftus, Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia
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Getting to Skinningrove
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 73 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 93 km · Manchester (MAN), 163 km
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Skinningrove64 km · quickest by road, 1h 46m · £8–11
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Skinningrove96 km · quickest by road, 2h 24m · £12–16
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Skinningrove149 km · quickest by road, 3h 6m · £18–25
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No local-transport research exists yet for Skinningrove
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Skinningrove. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get aroundTown is walkable; see below for the funicular.
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Next door to Skinningrove
- Loftustown and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England1.5 km
- Brottonvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK2.4 km
- Skelton and Brottoncivil parish in Redcar and Cleveland, North Yorkshire, England3.6 km
- Easingtonvillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3.6 km
- Kiltonvillage in North Yorkshire, UK2.5 km
- Kilton Thorpevillage in North Yorkshire, England, UK3 km