Stockton-on-Tees

US: (stok′tən on tēz′, -ôn-)

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Stock•ton-on-Tees  (stok′tən on tēz′, -ôn-), n. 

1. Place Names a seaport in Cleveland, in NE England, near the mouth of the Tees River. 164,000.

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Stockton-on-Tees noun

1. 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 and Darlington Railway (1825), the first passenger-carrying railway in the world; now mainly residential. Pop: 80 060 (2001)
2. a unitary authority in NE England, in Co Durham and North Yorkshire: created in 1996 from part of Cleveland county. Pop: 186 300 (2003 est). Area: 195 sq km (75 sq miles)