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In 1801 Middlesbrough was a small farming township with a population of just 25. From 1829 onwards it experienced rapid growth. In 1828 the influential Quaker banker, coal-mine owner and Stockton and Darlington Railway (S&DR) shareholder Joseph Pease sailed up the River Tees to find a suitable new site downriver of Stockton on which to place new coal staithes.
middlesbrough.gov.uk The Borough of Middlesbrough is a district in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire , England. It is part of the Tees Valley region, along with the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees , Redcar and Cleveland , Hartlepool and Darlington .
The Cleveland Centre opened in the same year. In 1974, Middlesbrough and other areas around the Tees, became part of the county of Cleveland. This was to create a county within a single NUTS region of England, with the UK joining the European Union predecessor (European Communities) a year earlier.
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The town of Middlesbrough had been incorporated as a municipal borough in 1853. [6] When elected county councils were established in 1889 it was considered large enough to provide its own county-level services, and so it was made a county borough, independent from the new North Riding County Council, whilst remaining part of the North Riding of Yorkshire for ceremonial purposes.
On 4 May 2023, he was elected Mayor of Middlesbrough with 10,956 votes, defeating the incumbent Andy Preston by 760 votes. [5]Shortly after his election, Cooke expressed the need for a change of culture within Middlesbrough Council stating there to be “an adversarial culture between politicians and officers”. [6]
Middlesbrough East was a parliamentary constituency in the town of Middlesbrough in North East England. It returned one Member of Parliament (MP) to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom , elected by the first-past-the-post voting system.
Middlesbrough Council is a unitary authority in North Yorkshire, England. Until 1 April 1996 it was a non-metropolitan district in Cleveland . Since 2002 it has also had a directly elected mayor .