Stockton-on-Tees
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Locator map for the English administrative region of Stockton-on-Tees.
Unitary authority in northeast England created in 1996 from part of the former county of Cleveland.
Area
200 sq km/77 sq miTowns and cities
Stockton-on-Tees (administrative headquarters), Billingham, Yarm, LongnewtonFeatures
River Tees forms east border; Tees Barrage; Yarm viaduct; Preston Hall (1825) Museum and Park (Stockton); Castlegate Quay (Stockton) includes full-scale replica of HMS EndeavourIndustries
chemicals, polythene film, light and heavy engineering, insulation products, plastics, electronicsPopulation
(2001) 178,400Famous people
Joseph Ritson (antiquarian)Stockton-on-Tees
Town, port, and administrative headquarters of Stockton-on-Tees metropolitan borough, on the River Tees, 5 km/3 mi west of Middlesbrough, northeast England; population (2001) 80,100. There are ship-repairing, steel, and chemical industries. It was the starting point for the Stockton–Darlington railway, the world's first passenger railway, which opened in 1825.
The town has the oldest railway-station building in the world, and there are many Georgian buildings.
| The town is believed to have received its charter of incorporation as a borough between the years 1201 and 1208, and its first market charter was granted in 1310. The town hall dates from 1735. Stockton-on-Tees was the birthplace of the cabinet maker Thomas Sheraton, and of John Walker, inventor of the first friction match. |
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