Teesside

Teesside () is an urban area around the River Tees in North East England. Straddling the border between County Durham and North Yorkshire, it spans the boroughs of Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees and Redcar and Cleveland. In 2011, it was the eighteenth-largest urban area in the United Kingdom. It forms part of the wider Tees Valley area, which also includes the boroughs of Darlington and Hartlepool.

Key facts

Settlement.name: Teesside
Settlement.settlement_type: Built-up area
Settlement.image_skyline: Tees Transporter Bridge (geograph 7662835).jpg
Settlement.image_caption: The Tees Transporter Bridge, a local landmark and icon of Teesside
Settlement.image_size: 250px
Settlement.image_map: Map of the Teesside Built-up Area.png
Settlement.map_caption: Map of the Teesside urban area
Settlement.subdivision_type: Sovereign state
Settlement.subdivision_name: United Kingdom
Settlement.subdivision_type1: Country
Settlement.subdivision_name1: England
Settlement.subdivision_type2

Article

19 sections

Contents

History
1968–1974: County borough
1969: Redcliffe-Maud Report
1974–1996: Non-metropolitan county
From 2016: Mayoralty
Demography
Processing
Salt
Alkali
Ammonia
Sulphuric acid and fertilisers
Plastics and nylon
Petrochemical
Metal works
British Steel Industrial Archive
Uses in local culture
See also
References
External links

Towns on Teesside include Middlesbrough, Stockton-on-Tees, Billingham, Redcar, Thornaby-on-Tees, and Ingleby Barwick. The local economy was once dominated by heavy manufacturing until deindustrialisation in the latter half of the 20th century.