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Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England, with a population of 84,815 at the 2021 UK census. [1] It gives its name to and is the largest settlement in the wider Borough of Stockton-on-Tees. It is part of Teesside and the Tees Valley, on the northern bank of the River Tees.
The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees is a unitary authority area in England with borough status in County Durham and North Yorkshire.In 2021, it had a population of 196,600. [5] Its main settlement and namesake of the borough is Stockton-on-Tees, which lies on the north bank of the River Tees, along with the towns of Billingham and Norton-on-Tees, in County Durham.
The town of Stockton-on-Tees was an ancient borough.The borough's date of creation is unknown, but Stockton was being described as a borough by 1283. [7] The original borough had a very tightly drawn boundary; by 1835 it was said that the borough only covered a quarter of the urban area. [8]
East Hartburn was formerly a township in the parish of Stockton-upon-Tees, [4] in 1866 East Hartburn became a separate civil parish, on 9 November 1913, the parish was abolished and merged with Stockton on Tees and Elton. [5] In 1911 the parish had a population of 618. [6]
The Battle of Stockton, took place on 10 September 1933 at the Market Cross in the High Street of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England.It was a clash between members of the British Union of Fascists (BUF) and anti-fascist demonstrators from the small local Communist Party and National Unemployed Workers Movement (NUWM).
His chief work was his Parochial History and Antiquities of Stockton-upon-Tees published at Stockton in 1796. A second and enlarged edition was printed in 1829. His other works include: Sermons for Prisons &c (1790). On the Prevention of Crimes and the Advantages of Solitary Confinement (1790).
Wikimedia Commons Stockton hailed from a wealthy family and was educated at the College of New Jersey, later known as Princeton University, according to "What They Didn't Teach You About the ...
The Tees Navigation Company was a British Company chartered by an act of Parliament, the Tees Navigation Company Act 1808 (48 Geo. 3. c. xlviii), for the purpose of improving navigation of the River Tees between the towns of Stockton-on-Tees [1] and Middlesbrough. [2] [3]