Portrack is an east Stockton area in the

borough of Stockton-on-Tees The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees is a unitary authority with Borough status in the United Kingdom, borough status in the counties of County Durham and North Yorkshire, England. The borough had a population of 191,600 in 2011. The main settlemen ...

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, England. It is close to

Billingham Billingham is a town and civil parish in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England. The town is on the north side of the River Tees and is governed by Stockton-on-Tees Borough Council. The settlement had previously formed its o ...

opposite Thornaby and just west of

Middlesbrough Middlesbrough ( ) is a town on the southern bank of the River Tees in North Yorkshire, England. It is near the North York Moors national park. It is the namesake and main town of its local borough council area. Until the early 1800s, the a ...

. The area is a large industrial and business part of Stockton, these are mainly centred on Portrack Lane.

Stockton Cricket Club Stockton Cricket Club is an English cricket club which plays at Grangefield Cricket Ground in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham. The club currently plays in the North Yorkshire and South Durham Cricket League (NYSD). the club field three adult ...

once played at the now former

Portrack Lane Portrack Lane was a cricket ground in Stockton-on-Tees, Durham. The first recorded match on the ground was in 1839, when Stockton played an All-England Eleven. The ground also hosted two first-class matches, the first of which was in 1858 whe ...

cricket ground. It was home to a number of pubs such as the Prince of Wales, the Portrack Social Club known locally as the Blood Tub, the Cricketers Arms and the Royal Hotel which have all since closed. The only pub left in the area is the Portrack Hotel.

History

The Portrack Marshes part of the area was once south of the

River Tees The River Tees (), in Northern England, rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the North Pennines and flows eastwards for to reach the North Sea between Hartlepool and Redcar near Middlesbrough. The modern day history of the river has be ...

, as part of the Portrack Cut. It was the site of a large municipal incinerator which took in and burned waste from across Teesside. The incinerator was closed in 1996 and demolished in 1999 and 2000. In 1892 Portrack was the site of several clay pits. The local Blackett’s Brickworks used clay from the clay pits.

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Areas of Stockton-on-Tees Housing estates in England {{Durham-geo-stub

History

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