Town, port, and administrative headquarters of
Stockton-on-Tees metropolitan borough, on the River Tees, 5 km/3 mi west of Middlesbrough, northeast England; population (2001) 80,100. There are ship-repairing, steel, and chemical industries. It was the starting point for the StocktonDarlington railway, the world's first passenger railway, which opened in 1825.
The town has the oldest railway-station building in the world, and there are many Georgian buildings.
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