The broad Tees estuary was ideal for exporting coal and later steel. In 1829, SRD shareholder Joseph Pease and his Quaker business associates bought the old Middlesbrough farm and its surrounding 527-acre estate. Even if other Tykes and indeed Teessiders disagree, Boro is a part of modern-day North Yorkshire. Middlesbrough was part of the shortlived county of Teesside (1968 to 1974) and then Cleveland which was abolished as a county in 1996. Read more: Nine Yorkshire woods and forests ideal for a spring walk Instead, it ceased to exist as an administrative county. But contrary to popular belief, the old County of Yorkshire was not abolished in 1974. Now many people no longer consider Middlesbrough to be part of Yorkshire. The following year, thanks to the opening of the Stockton and Darlington Railway (SDR), it had a population of more than 2,000. Today it is the largest town in North Yorkshire.īut in 1829, Middlesbrough was little more than a farm with 40 people.
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