Cleveland was a really nice area in its own right, encompassing the Cleveland Hills and the villages around - my childhood bedroom window looked out on to Roseberry Topping, and my primary school was a couple of miles away at Marton-in-Cleveland, itself a pretty little village. Now its all just part of the Boro conurbation of course, so the use of the name Cleveland to describe it, though inaccurate, is no longer really seems such a shame as it used to be.

When I left it was still just called the North Riding of Yorkshire.

cheers, Terry