Tees Valley
Tees Valley is a strategic authority area in Northern England, around the lower River Tees.
Tees Valley is a strategic authority area in Northern England, around the lower River Tees. The area is not a geographical valley but could be considered to be based on the Tees flood plain. The combined authority covers five council areas: Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees: this includes areas in both County Durham and North Yorkshire counties.
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Worth seeing in and around Tees Valley
10 places within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Riverside Stadium
The Riverside Stadium is a football stadium in Middlesbrough, England, which has been the home of Middlesbrough since its opening in 1995. It has an all-seated capacity of 33,746, although provisional planning permission is in place to expand to 42,000 if required.
3.9 km · association football stadium in Middlesbrough · Wikipedia - 02Teesside University
Teesside University is a public university with its main campus in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire in North East England. It was officially opened as Constantine Technical College in 1930, before becoming a polytechnic in 1969, and finally granted university status in 1992 by the Privy Council.
3.9 km · public university in Middlesbrough, United Kingdom · Wikipedia - 03Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge
The Tees Transporter Bridge, also referred to as the Middlesbrough Transporter Bridge or, locally, as The Transporter, is a bridge over the River Tees in northern England. The northern side is in Port Clarence and the southern side is in Middlesbrough.
3 km · transporter bridge in northeast England · Wikipedia - 04Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
MIMA, or Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, is a contemporary art gallery based in the centre of Middlesbrough, England. The gallery was formally launched on Sunday, 27 January 2007; since 2014, it has been part of Teesside University.
3.7 km · art Museum in Middlesbrough, England · Wikipedia - 05Middlesbrough College
Middlesbrough College, located on one campus at Middlehaven, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, is the largest college on Teesside.
3.3 km · college in Middlesbrough, UK · Wikipedia - 06Teesside Combined Court Centre
The Teesside Combined Court Centre is a Crown Court venue, which deals with criminal cases, as well as a County Court venue, which deals with civil cases, in Corporation Road, Middlesbrough, England.
3.7 km · judicial building in Middlebrough, England · Wikipedia - 07Middlesbrough Town Hall
Middlesbrough Town Hall is in Albert Road in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England. It is a Grade II* listed building.
3.5 km · municipal building in North Yorkshire, England · Wikipedia - 08Church of All Saints
All Saints' Church is a parish church in Middlesbrough, a large town in North East England.
3.7 km · church in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 09Church of St John the Evangelist
St John's Church, Middlesbrough, is the oldest parish church in the town of Middlesbrough in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is an active parish church and a Grade II* listed building which was listed by Historic England in July 1968.
3.9 km · church in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, UK · Wikipedia - 10Tees Newport Bridge
The Tees Newport Bridge is a vertical-lift bridge spanning the River Tees a short distance upriver from Tees Transporter Bridge, linking Middlesbrough with the borough of Stockton-on-Tees, Northern England. It no longer lifts, but still acts as a road bridge in its permanently down position.
3.7 km · Vertical-lift bridge · Wikipedia
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Getting to Tees Valley
- Airports
- Newcastle (NCL), 56 km · Leeds Bradford (LBA), 86 km · Manchester (MAN), 155 km
- Stations
- Middlesbrough railway station, 3.2 km · Billingham railway station, 1.4 km · Middlesbrough bus station, 3.4 km
- Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear → Tees Valley48 km · quickest by road, 1h 7m · £5–7
- Leeds, West Yorkshire → Tees Valley90 km · quickest by road, 1h 57m · £10–14
- Manchester, Greater Manchester → Tees Valley139 km · quickest by road, 2h 43m · £16–22
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Tees Valley
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Tees Valley. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inMiddlesbrough is a busy commercial port but has no ferry service.
- Get inThe nearest ferry ports are Port of Tyne downriver from Newcastle (from IJmuiden near Amsterdam) and Hull (from Rotterdam).
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Next door to Tees Valley
Tees Valley is 47 km from Newcastle upon Tyne, the nearest large city, whose note carries the wider picture.
- Middlesbroughtown in North Yorkshire, north-east England3.8 km