Stanghow

Stanghow is a village in the civil parish of Lockwood, in the borough of Redcar and Cleveland and the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England.

Stanghow
Stanghow village hall
Stanghow Location within North Yorkshire
OS grid reference	NZ 672 155
Civil parish	Lockwood
Unitary authority	Redcar and Cleveland
Ceremonial county	North Yorkshire
Region	Yorkshire and the Humber
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Police	North Yorkshire
Fire	North Yorkshire
Ambulance	Yorkshire
List of places UK England Yorkshire 54.531°N 0.960°W / 54.531; -0.960

It has won Britain in Bloom twice, in 2010 and 2012.

Education statistics

These is for the highest level education obtained by the residents of Stanghow and are from the UK Census of 2011. Stanghow has a high level of residents with either no qualifications or qualifications equal to 1 or more GCSE at grade D or below than the national average.

History

The place name Stanghow is thought to derive from the Old Norse meaning Stong-how meaning pole hill. How or Howe, deriving from the Old Norse word haugr meaning a hill, is a common element in Yorkshire place name.^[1]

Stanghow was formerly a township in the parish of Skelton near Redcar,^[2] in 1866 Stanghow became a separate civil parish,^[3] on 1 April 1974 the parish was abolished.^[4] In 1951 the parish had a population of 1015.^[5]