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Billingham

Industrial town in Stockton-on-Tees unitary authority, England, on the north bank of the River Tees; population (2001) 35,600. Billingham has a major electronics industry (Samsung), as well as chemical, metal and engineering works. The tower of the church of St Cuthbert is Anglo-Saxon, dating from the 10th century.

Billingham became an industrial town after World War I, when Imperial Chemical Industries developed an extensive chemicals works here.



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