Middlesbrough ( MID-əlz-brə) is a port town in North Yorkshire, England. The town's built-up area, an area spanning from the south bank of the River Tees, up to and including Coulby Newham and Nunthorpe, had a population of 148,215 at the 2021 UK Census. The town's borough (of similar size) is governed by Middlesbrough Council. It is the postal town further south (including Stokesley and Great Ayton) to the North York Moors National Park. The largest town of Teesside and the largest of the Tees Valley region, it is the direct regional centre for a population of 678,400 in 2021 and de facto centre for northern Yorkshire and southern County Durham.
A hamlet surrounded by rural farmland, until the Stockton and Darlington Railway expanded in 1830 linking the area's existing economy, the settlement had booms in heavy industry during early 19th century and late 19th century. The town became too reliant on existing declining sectors in the 20th century with diversity of the economy slowly increasing during the late-20th to early-21st centuries. Some of the town's major economic sectors by age of the oldest to newest are a port, ship building, coal (former), ironworks, steel production (metalworks have moved eastwards to between Eston and Redcar), education (notably Teesside University and Middlesbrough College) and the health sector.
Part of Yorkshire since before the Domesday Book, the settlement became a town (with a municipal borough) in 1853. With Yorkshire divided into its ancient ridings in 1889, the North Riding of Yorkshire town was large enough to become a county borough, independent from the then new North Riding County Council. In 1968, the borough of Middlesbrough was merged into the larger County Borough of Teesside. Six years later (1974), a borough with the town's name was re-established within the new county of Cleveland. The new county was abolished in 1996 and since then the town's borough has had unitary authority status and been within North Yorkshire's ceremonial county. Councils of the four former Cleveland boroughs and for the borough of Darlington each have had a representative seat on the Tees Valley Combined Authority cabinet, since 2016. The combined authority has had a directly elected mayor since 2017.
Distance between:
London to Middlesbrough217 Miles / 349 Kms Liverpool to Middlesbrough106 Miles / 171 Kms
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