Eastfield,_North_Yorkshire
Eastfield, North Yorkshire
Town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England
Eastfield is a town and civil parish in North Yorkshire, England. It was granted town status in January 2016.[2] It is directly south of Scarborough and is sometimes described as one of its suburbs.[3][4]
According to the 2011 UK census, Eastfield parish had a population of 5,610,[5] a reduction on the 2001 UK census figure of 5,863.[6] The town council is Eastfield Town Council.[7] The population for Eastfield according to the 2021 UK census was returned as 7,178.
The area has a mid-size Industrial Park (Olympian Trading Park), the rapidly expanding Scarborough Business Park, and Plaxton Park is on the outskirts of Eastfield. The area is the base for a number of large businesses, for example Plaxton, Raflatac, Unison, Cooplands, Mainline Menswear, Sik Silk and Dale Power Solutions. The largest factory in the vicinity is McCain Foods. Boyes, a discount department store chain which has over 70 stores across the north has its head office and warehouse facilities here.[8]
Eastfield was home to local commercial radio station Yorkshire Coast Radio which broadcast to Scarborough, Filey, Bridlington and Whitby on FM and DAB, until its closure.[9]
George Pindar School is the local secondary school for Eastfield and the surrounding vicinity.
In April 2021, Historic England announced the discovery of an important Roman residential site during a survey for a new housing estate, suggesting it to be either a religious sanctuary, a luxury villa or combination of both. It is a type of building layout not known of elsewhere in Britain.[10][11] Within hours of the announcement of the discovery, people trespassed onto the site and caused damage to the building.[12] The discovery of the site caused a reduction of planned homes, from approximately 150 to 94.[12]