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Stockton-on-Tees
Town in County Durham, England

Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in County Durham, England, with a population of 84,815 at the 2021 census.

Plan a trip to Stockton-on-Tees→From Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear

It gives its name to and is the largest settlement in the wider Borough of Stockton-on-Tees. It is part of Teesside and the Tees Valley, on the northern bank of the River Tees.

Get in

Getting to Stockton-on-Tees

Newcastle Airport has flights from across western Europe and is only 90 min away by rail and metro. Manchester Airport is better for any destination further out. The hourly direct train to Thornaby takes 2 hr 45 min. 1 Teesside Airport (MME IATA) is five miles west of Stockton. It only has six flights a day, from Inverness, Aberdeen, Amsterdam, Alicante and Palma de Mallorca.

See

Worth seeing

Town Hall is in the plaza midway along High Street. It was built in 1735 and restored in 2011. Stockton Parish Church further north on High Street was completed in 1712 and remains active.

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    Preston Park

    Preston Hall was built in 1825 but greatly extended from the 1880s by Robert Ropner, a shipping tycoon.

Do

Things to do

Globe Theatre mostly puts on live music. It's on High St next to the shopping centre. Georgian Theatre is a smaller venue further south on High St, in a 1766 building. ARC is a large modern venue on Dovecot St a block west of High St. Splash is a swimming baths on Church Rd, with two slides and a wave machine.

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    Hollywood Bowl

    Aintree Oval, Teesside Leisure Park TS17 7BU,.

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    Billingham Forum

    This leisure complex has ice skating, a swimming pool, gym, sports hall, squash courts, play barn and a theatre.

Eat

Where to eat

Sorriso, 13-24 High St TS18 1UB,. Mon-Fri 4:30AM-9PM, Sat noon-10PM, Sun noon-7PM. Reliable Italian, slick service. The Thomas Sheraton, 4 Bridge Rd TS18 1BH,. Daily 8AM-midnight. JD Wetherspoon with decent food and ale. Peking Garden, 15 Bridge St 3-24 TS18 3AA,. Mon-Sat 5-10PM, Sun noon-9PM. Good buffet-style Chinese.

How locals move

Getting around Stockton-on-Tees the local way

  • 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).

From Wikivoyage: Middlesbrough, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2026-09.

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