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[[Image:Lealholmside.jpg|thumb|none|Lealholm and Lealholmside]]
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===John Castillo===▼
Lealholm was home to the poet and lay preacher [[John Castillo]] (1792 - 1845), often referred to as the "Bard of the Dales". He lived on the site now known as "Poets Corner", which today operates as a plant nursery. ▼
===Lealholmside===
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===The River Esk===
The River Esk dog-legs through the village. In the centre stands the bridge which crosses the Esk a few yards south of the old fording point. 400 yards further upsteam stands a set of stepping stones. Between these two the river becomes very deep where it bends sharply to the right. Despite warning notices, the pool is popular with swimmers and teenagers diving into the river on hot summer days. In the 1990s a boy was drowned in the pool when he dived in and became entangled with weeds and tree roots in the depths.
▲===John Castillo===
▲Lealholm was home to the poet and lay preacher [[John Castillo]] (1792 - 1845), often referred to as the "Bard of the Dales". He lived on the site now known as "Poets Corner", which today operates as a plant nursery.
===The Chronicler of Lealholm===▼
The history of the village is well chronicled in books and correspondence in the [[Whitby gazette|Whitby Gazette]] by John Davidson (1889 - 1988), a shipbroker originally from Stockton-on-Tees, who held a great deal of affection for the village and carried out much research on the area, published in his books including "The Manor, Lordship and Castle of Danby" and "Chronicles of Lealholm & Glaisdale". The books are out of print, but his painstaking research has been much copied and there are various publications in print today covering the history of the village.▼
==History==
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===Flooding===
Due to its proximity to the river Esk and its tributaries, flooding has long been a problem for some of the lower houses in the village, and marks carved into the side wall of the Methodist chapel show the extent of flooding. At the lowest level, the floods in November 2000 stand just short of the floods in July 1840. However these were low compared to major flooding on [[23 July]], [[1930]] when the Methodist chapel stood more than a metre under water. (The chapel itself stands approximately 2 metres above the normal water level of the [[River Esk, North Yorkshire|River Esk]]).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.environment-agency.gov.uk/commondata/acrobat/chapter_3a_1234275.pdf |title=Current flood risks and management |accessdate=2008-03-10 |format=PDF |work=Esk and Coastal Streams Catchment Flood Management Plan |author=Environment Agency |date=October 2005}}</ref> It was this same flood that caused the collapse of bridges over the river at [[Glaisdale]], [[Egton]] and [[Sleights]], further down the valley.
▲===The Chronicler of Lealholm===
▲The history of the village is well chronicled in books and correspondence in the [[Whitby gazette|Whitby Gazette]] by John Davidson (1889 - 1988), a shipbroker originally from Stockton-on-Tees, who held a great deal of affection for the village and carried out much research on the area, published in his books including "The Manor, Lordship and Castle of Danby" and "Chronicles of Lealholm & Glaisdale". The books are out of print, but his painstaking research has been much copied and there are various publications in print today covering the history of the village.
===Airplane Crash===
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