Editing Guisborough (section)

==Governance==
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| website        = {{URL|https://www.guisboroughtowncouncil.co.uk}}
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| meeting_place=[[File:Sunnyfield House, Westgate, Guisborough (geograph 6576815).jpg|thumb|Sunnyfield House]]
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[[File:Guisborough Town Hall.jpg|thumb|left|[[Guisborough Town Hall]]]]

Guisborough's county authority since 1889, the [[North Riding of Yorkshire]], was disbanded in 1974. The town was in the [[county of Cleveland]]'s Langbaurgh borough from 1974 to 1996 and is now in the Redcar and Cleveland [[unitary authority]] borough of North Yorkshire.

[[Guisborough Town Hall]] was built on Westgate in 1821. When built, it was arcaded with [[Slaughterhouse|shambles]] on the ground floor and an assembly room on the first.<ref>{{Cite web |title='Groton – Gunnerton', in A Topographical Dictionary of England |first= Samuel |last=Lewis |location=London |year=1848 |pages=348–360 |publisher=British History Online |url=http://www.british-history.ac.uk/topographical-dict/england/pp348-360 |access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref> The two-storey building was topped with a third storey in 1870.<ref>{{NHLE |num=1329572 |desc=Town Hall |access-date=10 July 2017}}</ref> In 2015 [[Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council elections|Redcar and Cleveland Council]] acquired the building at auction and subsequently announced plans to redevelop it with financial support from the [[National Lottery Heritage Fund]] and [[Tees Valley Combined Authority]],<ref>{{cite news|date=12 January 2021|title=Multi-million pound project to transform derelict building into 'gateway to the North York Moors'|newspaper=Gazette Live|url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/multi-million-pound-project-transform-19603592|access-date=7 July 2021}}</ref> the building reopened in April 2022. This building now hosts tea afternoons on Thursdays.