Talk:Saltburn-by-the-Sea

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[edit] Huntcliff

"The town is on the Cleveland Way and just south of the town is the large Huntcliff."
Surely Huntcliff is to the east of Saltburn. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by JohnYeadon (talk • contribs) 22:00, 13 January 2007 (UTC).
I looked on Google Earth, and I think that Huntcliff is located NE of Saltburn, (taking the clock in the Square as the centre of town, and the tip of the cliff as Huntcliff - strictly speaking it is NNE). I will edit the page with this discovery :-) CameronDougherty 14:35, 7 July 2007 (UTC) Furthermore - isn't it called 'Hunt Cliff'. That is what both my Ordnance Survey maps of the area say. There is a 'Huntcliff Foot' at the bottom of the cliff and also 'Huntcliff Cottages' on top of the cliff, and of course a 'Huntcliff School' but the actual cliff itself is called 'Hunt Cliff'. The OS isn't the final answer on these matters of course. JohnYeadon 22:10, 28 June 2007 (UTC) Hi John, not sure about this, certainly known locally as Huntcliff. CameronDougherty 14:35, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

I also wonder why the S in "Sea" in Saltburn-by-the-Sea is upper case? CameronDougherty 14:42, 7 July 2007 (UTC)

There is no reference to the origin of the name. I think that this relates to the fact that there is a salt-water stream or burn(Saltburn Beck) that meets the sea close to the Ship Inn at the foot of Huntcliff. Not sure what the 'by-the-Sea' suffix refers to though ;-). No mention of the miniature railway or the now demolished ha'penny bridge.

[edit] The funicular railway

Some major maintenance was in fact carried out in 1976, when wooden parts of the tracking and structure were replaced with concrete and bricking. The work was done by JW Pearson Ltd. Both my grandfather and father were contractors there and I remember the baking weather as my mum and I visited from Middlesbrough and my dad risked life and limb to recover a football from the pier roof, when at the time is was in a very poor state of repair.