History
Stockton began as an Anglo-Saxon settlement on high ground about a northern bank of the River Tees. A manor of Stockton was created around 1138 & later purchased by Bishop Pudsey of Durham in 1189 and since so has undergone numerous changes. Stockton's market can trace its history back to 1310, when Bishop Bek of Durham granted a market charter - 'to our town of Stockton the market upon each Wednesday for ever'. Stockton Castle is first referred to within 1376. It was captured per Scottish in 1644 and was occupied by the two until 1646, however was destroyed on the orders of Oliver Cromwell at the prevent of the Civil War.

Industry
Major industries within Stockton include ship-repairing, steel & chemical substance.

A town is best known for its associations sustaining a Stockton and Darlington Railway on which ran the world's first steam hauled rider train in 1825. A town likewise has the world's oldest railway station building, and too contains very much Georgian architecture, one notable case existence a worlds oldest Georgian theatre, constructed in 1766.

Famous citizens
It was a birthplace & early at home of cabinetmaker Thomas Sheraton. It was as well a residence of John Walker, who invented a friction match in 1826.

More far-famed population natural within Stockton include Will Hay and Jimmy James the comedians; Ivy Close Miss Great Britain; Brass Crosby Lord Mayor of London; Joseph Ritson waspish critic and editor; 'Flying' Freddy Dixon the racer; the actor Richard Griffiths; Francis Bainbridge the great physiologist and Margaret Nicholson would-be assassin of George III. She appears in the film The Madness of King George.

A Parliamentarian for several years was Harold Macmillan, later Prime Minister. He was created Earl of Stockton on his retirement. Coincidentally, a second Prime Minister, Tony Blair, represents Sedgefield, which is the portion of County Durham surrounding Stockton-on-Tees.

Stockton today
A town's High Street is reputed to be a widest inside England.

A suburban area of Stocktin-on-Tees come divided into many different boroughs, Hartburn, Fairfield, Hardwick and Norton being a select few.

Stockton town centre has undergone numbers of developments around recent years including a outstanding, albeit rickety, Millennium Bridge, a Queens Campus of Durham University, several acres of office block erected along a To the south bank of the River Tees within the Teesdale development and Wellington Square a modern looking arcade erected upon the old Wellington Street area of the town centre.

Stockton the future
Operate is under way to produce A Northward bank of the River Tees as part of the Northward Shore development, which might include recently agents & housing.

A [http://www.smi-teesvalley.co.uk/ Stockton-Middlesbrough Initiative] occurs as Xx season vision for regenerating a urban core of the Tees Valley, a independent focus existence the Thirty klick² vicinity along a banks of the River Tees between the two centres of Stockton & Middlesbrough. The master project has been drawn higher by environmental project specialists [http://www.gillespies.co.uk/updatesingle_19.html Gillespies], a eventual aim existence to produce a distinctive high-quality city of above 320,000 citizens at the heart of the Tees Valley, by connecting each Middlesbrough and Stockton along the Tees corridor. A task might include non merely a existent developments at [http://www.teesvalleyregeneration.co.uk/pages/project/project=northbank North Shore], Stockton & [http://www.teesvalleyregeneration.co.uk/pages/project/project=Middlehaven Middlehaven], Middlesbrough, but numbers of others all over the 15-20 month time.