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Stockton-on-Tees
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Stock·ton-on-Tees  (stktn-n-tz, -ôn-)
A borough of northeast England west-northwest of Middlesbrough. It is a shipbuilding center. Population: 80,000.

Stockton-on-Tees
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1. (Placename) a former port and industrial centre in NE England, in Stockton-on-Tees unitary authority, Co. Durham, on the River Tees: famous for the Stockton-Darlington Railway (1825), the first passenger-carrying railway in the world; now mainly residential. Pop.: 83 576 (1991)
2. (Placename) a unitary authority in NE England, in Co. Durham and North Yorkshire: created in 1996 from part of Cleveland county. Pop.: 178 405 (2001). Area: 195 sq. km (75 sq. miles)


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