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Stockton lies on the north bank of the River Tees. The town's northern and western extremities are on slightly higher ground than the town centre, which is directly on the Tees. Stockton experiences occasional earth tremors. For example, it was the epicentre of a tremor measuring 2.8 on the Richter scale on 23 January 2020. [19]
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 former county's four boroughs and the Borough of Darlington are now recorded as the Tees Valley Combined Authority mayoral area which was created in 2016 with its first census in 2021. The newly formed Tees Valley Combined Authority encompasses 678,000 people and an area of 795 square kilometres (307 sq mi) over its 5 borough councils. [1]
Stockton Norton Road railway station was a station on the Clarence Railway's North Shore Branch Line. It served the market town of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, England. It opened originally as the station for the Hartlepool and Stockton Railway from 1842 until 1852 when it was replaced by the stations at Stockton North and South. The ...
Teesdale Business Park is a major business park on the former site of Head Wrightsons' Teesdale works in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. The park was redeveloped by the Teesside Development Corporation. The area is immediately north of Thornaby railway station. The business park is bounded by the Tees Valley Rail-line and the River ...
Locations within the borough/unitary authority area of Stockton-on-Tees. Some are within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire and some County Durham . Wikimedia Commons has media related to Stockton-on-Tees .
It was originally the home of Mr Lewis Dodshon who was the owner of one of the largest wholesale grocers in the area. He was the son of John Dodshon, whose memorial is in the centre of Stockton. In the 1880s, it was the home of the Mountjoy Pearse family, who employed thousands in shipbuilding yards on the Tees and an iron company in Hartlepool ...
Makro had also expanded to the United States in the mid-1980s. In 1989, Kmart bought the US locations, [2] and converted most of them to Pace Warehouse in 1990. Makro expanded to Asia with its first store in Thailand in 1989. Operating as Siam Makro, the company is a joint venture between Charoen Pokphand and SHV Holdings. In 1994, Siam Makro ...