Stockton-on-Tees

Proper noun

Meaning

A market town in County Durham, England, known as Stockton for short. Formerly a Metropolitan Borough, and merged into the County Borough of Teesside between 1968 and 1974.

A borough created in 1974 as part of Cleveland County, becoming a unitary authority in 1996 within Tees Valley region, and split between the ceremonial counties of County Durham and North Yorkshire.

Examples

In the UK, the main plants were as follows: * Billingham (in Stockton-on-Tees ) and Wilton (in present-day Redcar and Cleveland ): ICI used the Billingham site to manufacture fertilisers in the 1920s and went on to produce plastics at Billingham in 1934. Source: Internet

Queen's Campus (of Durham University ), Stockton-on-Tees Over 50% of the region's students come from the region, and around 35% are from other regions. Source: Internet

Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar, and Cleveland and Newcastle were also above England's average. Source: Internet

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