Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees is a unitary authority area and borough in the Tees Valley area of North East England, with a population in 2001 of 178,408, rising to 185,880 in 2005 estimates. The borough of Stockton-on-Tees consists of Stockton-on-Tees (population 82,880), and smaller outlying settlements, including Billingham (pop. 36,720), Thornaby-on-Tees, (pop. 23,200) Yarm, Ingleby Barwick and Norton. Durham Tees Valley Airport is also partly within the ... more

Stockton-on-Tees is a unitary authority area and borough in the Tees Valley area of North East England, with a population in 2001 of 178,408, rising to 185,880 in 2005 estimates. The borough of Stockton-on-Tees consists of Stockton-on-Tees (population 82,880), and smaller outlying settlements, including Billingham (pop. 36,720), Thornaby-on-Tees, (pop. 23,200) Yarm, Ingleby Barwick and Norton. Durham Tees Valley Airport is also partly within the borough. The Stockton-on-Tees borough accounts for the largest number of residents within the Teesside and Hartlepool urban area. The core of the town was anciently in County Durham, but the borough spilled over the river into Yorkshire. The borough was formed on 1 April 1974, from the Stockton part of Teesside county borough, along with part of Stockton Rural District in County Durham and part of Stokesley Rural District from the North Riding. At that time it was designated a non-metropolitan district of Cleveland. It became a unitary... less