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RUNSWICK BAY has just won the Sunday Times Beach of the Year accolade, and as it has been so long in our year of lockdowns since we visited the coast, we d thought we d pull out some archive pictures to celebrate. The Sunday paper enthused about the North Yorkshire beach: “Our winner for 2020 is close to perfection, with pods of bottlenose dolphins often spotted on the horizon plus fossil-hunting and rock-pooling on the seemingly endless sands. And then Peter Sotheran of Redcar wrote with a question: May I have a ruling on how one pronounces Runswick Bay – is the ‘w’ in it silent or not? ....
Without any shadow of a doubt, there is no w in Runswick. “As an east Cleveland local going back nearly 70 years, I and my contemporaries always pronounced Runswick without sounding the w , as did our predecessors,” says Colin Robson. Malcolm McCallum agrees: “Having grown up at Runswick in the 1940s and 1950s, I remember the w being silent and newcomers soon being told this.” “Pronunciation of Runswick Bay has definitely got a silent w,” says Alison Nelson. “I live in the village and have never heard anyone local pronounce the w. “And as for Staithes, the locals and elders pronounce it as “Steers”.” ....