where is East Cleveland ?
Unfortunately since 1974 there has been some confusion about the name ‘Cleveland’. The Danes had divided the County of Yorkshire into three Ridings (from thridung = third) , North Riding, East Riding and West Riding. Each riding was further divided into wapentakes. The two north eastern wapentakes of the North Riding named East Langbaurgh andWest Langbaurgh covered the area more commonly known by the Old English (Anglo-Saxon) name of Cleveland meaning ‘clif-land’. In 1974 there was a nation wide reform of local government in England. A new county to cover the wider Tees-side was created taking over part of the North Riding and part of south east Durham. This county was named Cleveland even though a large part of the traditional area of Cleveland remained in Yorkshire outside the new County and part of Durham was in the new county.So now there were two Clevelands The County of Cleveland was disbanded in 1996 and its constituent parts returned to their original counties North Yorkshire a
