Redcar and Cleveland

Borough of Redcar and Cleveland
Geography
Status:	Unitary, Borough
Region:	North East England
Ceremonial County:	North Yorkshire
Area: - Total	Ranked 174th 244.88 km²
Admin. HQ:	South Bank
ONS code:	00EE
Demographics
Population: - Total (2002 est.) - Density	Ranked 120th 139,381 569 / km²
Ethnicity:	98.9% White
Politics
Redcar and Cleveland Council http://www.redcar-cleveland.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
Executive:	Conservative + Liberal Democrats + Independent
MPs:	Ashok Kumar, Vera Baird

Redcar and Cleveland is a unitary authority in the former county of Cleveland, consisting of Redcar, Saltburn-by-the-Sea, Guisborough, and small towns such as Brotton, Skelton, and Loftus. The area was historically part of Yorkshire, and is now part of the ceremomial county of North Yorkshire. It had a resident population of 139,132 in 2001. It is represented in Parliament by the barrister Vera Baird (Labour) for the Redcar constituency and by Ashok Kumar (Labour) for the Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland constituency.

The district was created in 1974 as Langbaurgh, after the ancient wapentake of Yorkshire. It was renamed as Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council when it became a unitary authority on April 1, 1996.

External links

• Statistics about Redcar and Cleveland from the Office of National Statistics Census 2001