Local attractions nearby include Great Ayton, Captain Cook's monument, and Roseberry Topping in the North York Moors National Park.

Its large range of building types, including fine Georgian architecture, has contributed to its character.

Other facilities include a medium-sized Co-operative Food supermarket, showground, camping site, health centre, industrial estate, library, police and fire stations.

The town has five pubs (The Queen's Head, The White Swan, The Mill, The Spread Eagle and The Bank).

The fair stretches the full length of the high street and includes rides such as Waltzers, Miami, Dodgems and various types of Scramblers.

[7] An agreement was made, in 1870, by Fr Andrew Burns, parish priest of Middlesbrough, to buy a plot of land from Henry Passman, of Hutton Rudby.

Paying for the plot proved difficult, until a donation was received from Miss Apollina Bland, originally from Yorkshire, but living in Dorset.

Italian prisoners-of-war worked with the parish priest, Fr MacDonnell, to replaster the walls and to lay a concrete floor in place of the rotting wooden one.

In 2018, St Joseph’s had a major interior overhaul, guided by Fr William Charlton, parish priest.

John Wesley preached at Stokesley at least twelve times between April 1752 and his final visit in June 1790, when he was 87.

[9] Stokesley SC Football Club currently compete in the North Riding League Premier Division, which was founded in 1920.

Local news and television programmes are provided by BBC North East and Cumbria and ITV Tyne Tees.

Alumni of Stokesley School include Labour politician Alan Milburn, 1988 Olympics runner Louise Stuart and Sky Sports News journalist and presenter David Jones.