Teesdale Business Park is a major business park on the former site of Head Wrightsons' Teesdale works in

Thornaby-on-Tees Thornaby-on-Tees, commonly referred to as Thornaby, is a town and civil parish on the River Tees's southern bank. It is in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. The parish had a population of 24,741 at the 2011 census, in t ...

, North Yorkshire, England. The park was redeveloped by the

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. The area is immediately north of

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. The business park is bounded by the Tees Valley Rail-line and the River Tees. It is a short distance from Stockton-on-Tees town centre – connected via the

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, Teesquay Millennium, Princess of Wales and Infinity bridges.

Buildings and organisations

The area consists of the following buildings, businesses and organisations. : Advance House, St. Mark's Court – housing Stockton Probation, and the Commission for Social Care Inspection : Alexander's Car Showroom : Barclaycard House, Massey Road – housing

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: Barclays House, Sabatier Close – housing Barclays : Cavendish House, Prince's Wharf / Council of Europe Boulevard – housing the

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, Tees Valley Unlimited LEP and Cubic Transportation Systems. Once housing

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and

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development agencies : Christine House, Sorbonne Close – housing Turner and Townsend, TABS Recruitment, Middlesbrough Recruitment : Churchill House, Pearson Court, Pearson Way – formerly housing

Churchill Insurance Churchill Insurance is a British insurance company based in Bromley, London. Founded in 1989, as one of the country's first direct to customer car insurance companies, the company has expanded to offer a range of general insurance products. Sin ...

: Clearwater House, Columbia Drive – housing

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's mortgage operations : Crutes House, Fudan Way – housing Crutes Law Firm and accountants Tait Walker : Dunedin House, Columbia Drive – housing

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Holidays, and Energy Solutions International : Endeavour House, St. Mark's Court – housing the Endeavour Housing Association and Teesdale Housing Association : Florence House, Pearson Court, Pearson Way – housing Terra Nitrogen (UK) Limited : George Stephenson House, St Mark's Court – housing

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: Kvaerner : OBC House, Sabatier Close – housing OBC Shipping Ltd : Primecare – Cleveland, Massey Road : Petroplus in St. Mark's Court : Progress House, Fudan Way – housing the White Young Green Group : PX House, Westpoint Road – housing PX Ltd (formerly part of

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) a provider of operations, management and maintenance solutions : Radio House, Yale Crescent, student accommodation, formerly

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and

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: Richard House, Sorbonne Close – housing Ofsted, TJ Hazel (Engineering Consultants) Ltd.,

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and Safe in Tees Valley Ltd. : Robert House, Westpoint Road / Merchants Wharf – also housing PX Ltd : St. Mark's House, St. Mark's Court – housing the

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, the Valuation Office Agency and the

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: Swan House, Westpoint Road – housing the Environment Agency : Swiftcover, Fudan Way : Teesdale House, Westpoint Road – housing the North East NHS Strategic Health Authority : VAI House, Fudan Way – housing

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(UK) : Victoria House, Pearson Way – housing the stockbrokers Gerrard : Visualsoft House, Prince's Wharf / Council of Europe Boulevard – housing Visualsoft and

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: Westminster House, St. Mark's Court – housing Endeavour Partnerships and LJJ Contractors. ; Educational institutions : Durham University – Queen's Campus :: John Snow College, Sorbonne Close :: Stephenson College, East Drive :: Wolfson Research Institute, East Drive :

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, Harvard Avenue. ; Shops and services : Sainsburys Local, Yale Crescent : Teesdale Children's Day Nursery, Yale Crescent. ; Public houses : The Dubliners – Bridge Street. ; Residential and nursing homes : Alison House Residential Care Home, Fudan Way : Kirkdale Nursing Home, Radcliffe Crescent : Teesdale Lodge Nursing Home, Radcliffe Crescent. ; Residential Properties : Anchorage Mews : Claremont Court, Stanford Close : Grosvenor House, Sorbonne Close : Harriet House, Sorbonne Close : Helen House, Sorbonne Close : Rochester Court, Stanford Close : The Waterside, Sorbonne Close : Trinity Mews. ; Roads : Chapel Street, Claremont Court, Columbia Drive, Council of Europe Boulevard, East Drive, Fudan Way, Harvard Avenue, Massey Road, Pearson Way, Princeton Drive, Radcliffe Crescent, Sabatier Close, Sorbonne Close, St. Mark's Court, Stanford Close, Station Street, Teesdale Boulevard, Trinity Mews, University Boulevard, Westpoint Road, Yale Crescent. ; Bridges :

Teesquay Millennium Footbridge Teesquay Millennium Footbridge is a footbridge crossing east-west over the River Tees between Stockton high street and Thornaby ( Teesdale Business Park) in Northern England. It is just east of Stockton town centre and in the town's namesake ...

: Princess of Wales Bridge :

Infinity Bridge The Infinity Bridge is a public pedestrian and cycle footbridge across the River Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in northern England. The bridge is situated one kilometre downriver of Stockton town centre, between the Princess of Wales ...

: Victoria Bridge ; Water features : Merchants Wharf : Prince's Wharf : St. Mark's Basin south east of the Teesquay Millennium Bridge.

Historic note

In 1987, after

Head Wrightson Head Wrightson was a big heavy industrial firm based at Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. It specialised in the manufacture of large industrial products such as fractional distillation columns, which sometimes needed special transpo ...

s' Teesdale Works closed and the site had been cleared, Prime Minister

Margaret Thatcher Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher (; 13 October 19258 April 2013) was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and Leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990. She was the first female British prime ...

visited the site as part of her visit to

Teesside Teesside () is a built-up area around the River Tees in the north of England, split between County Durham and North Yorkshire. The name was initially used as a county borough in the North Riding of Yorkshire. Historically a hub for heavy manu ...

to open the

and made what has been poignantly termed her "Walk in the Wilderness".

References

External links

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Tees Barrage The Tees Barrage is a barrage and road bridge across the River Tees, Northern England, just upriver of Blue House Point and is used to control the flow of the river, preventing flooding and the effects of tidal change. It is between the t ...

, Southwest = Victoria Bridge , South =

Tees Valley Line The Tees Valley Line is a rail route, in Northern England, following part of the original Stockton and Darlington Railway route of 1825. The line covers a distance of , and connects to via , and 14 other stations in the Teesdale. The secti ...

, Southeast = Teesside Park {{Stockton Business parks of England Thornaby-on-Tees