- Thorntree
"See also
Thorn tree "Thorntree is a housing estate in east
Middlesbrough within the borough of Middlesbrough and the ceremonial county ofNorth Yorkshire ,England .It is so called because it was built on land which was Thorntree Farm.It has a publicpark called Thorntree Park. The main roads of the estate are College Road and The Greenway.This housing estate was built in the late 1940s after people started to move away from the terrace housing of Middlesbrough town centre and
North Ormesby .Thorntree has a population of 5,000 and was identified as the 3rd most deprived (out of 8,434) housing ward in England in 2000. However, since the
Index of Multiple Deprivation has begun to measure smaller output areas with a mean population of 1500 the three areas of Thorntree now rank 192nd, 205th and 378th most deprived (out of 34,412) in England respectively.The estate recently featured in the
Channel 4 , Reality TV show, “Secret Millionaire ”. MillionairePaul Williams and his 20-year-old son Ben lived undercover on Thorntree for 10 days. At the end of the show, he gave £10,000 to local hairdresser Gina Lawrence to help her to train trainee hairdressers. He also gave a further £10,000 to the The Christian Centre (formerly Thorntree Community Church) Lunch Club, which they used to buy a minibus and fund the club.History
Much of Thorntree stands on what used to be a farmland. In all, convert|138|acre|km2 of Thorntree Farm and 68 acres of Low Bottoms Farm were purchased as land on which to site the estate.
Local Amenities
* Public House (1)The Thorntree.
* Schools (2)Thorntree Primary School ,Caldicotes Primary School .
* Churches (2)Corpus Christi Roman Catholic Church ,
The Christian Centre.External links
* [http://neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/home.do;jsessionid=ac1f930bce6287a4df00cff4f67813cabb85f91af1e.e38PbNqOa3qRe34SchiLbN0Qb310n6jAmljGr5XDqQLvpAe?bhcp=1 Neighbourhood Statistics]
* [http://www.millenniumschools.co.uk/pub/middlesbrough/caldicotes/ Caldicotes Primary School]
* [http://www.millenniumschools.co.uk/pub/middlesbrough/thorntree/a.html?1160499585 Thorntree Primary School]
* [http://www.thechristiancentre.org.uk/thorntree The Christian Centre]
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