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Teesdale Business Park is a major business park on the former site of
Head Wrightsons' Teesdale works in
Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. The park was redeveloped by the
Teesside Development Corporation.
The area is immediately north of
Thornaby railway station.
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
Victoria,
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
Barclaycard
- Barclays House, Sabatier Close – housing
Barclays
- Cavendish House, Prince's Wharf / Council of Europe Boulevard – housing the
Tees Valley Combined Authority,
Tees Valley Unlimited LEP and Cubic Transportation Systems. Once housing
One NorthEast and
Tees Valley Regeneration development agencies
- Christine House, Sorbonne Close – housing Turner and Townsend, TABS Recruitment, Middlesbrough Recruitment
- Churchill House, Pearson Court, Pearson Way – formerly housing
Churchill Insurance
- Clearwater House, Columbia Drive – housing
Santander's mortgage operations
- Crutes House, Fudan Way – housing Crutes Law Firm and accountants Tait Walker
- Dunedin House, Columbia Drive – housing
Standard Life,
Atkins,
Halcrow Group Limited,
First Choice (travel firm) 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
HM Revenue and Customs
-
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
Enron) a provider of operations, management and maintenance solutions
- Radio House, Yale Crescent, student accommodation, formerly
TFM (radio) and
Magic 1170
- Richard House, Sorbonne Close – housing
Ofsted, TJ Hazel (Engineering Consultants) Ltd.,
Public Lending Right 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
DVLA, the
Valuation Office Agency and the
Insolvency Service
- 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
Siemens VAI (UK)
- Victoria House, Pearson Way – housing the stockbrokers Gerrard
- Visualsoft House, Prince's Wharf / Council of Europe Boulevard – housing Visualsoft and
CEMEX
- 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
-
Stockton Riverside College, 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
-
Princess of Wales Bridge
-
Infinity Bridge
-
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 Wrightsons' Teesdale Works closed and the site had been cleared, Prime Minister
Margaret Thatcher visited the site as part of her visit to
Teesside to open the
Teesside Development Corporation and made what has been poignantly termed her "Walk in the Wilderness".
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References
External links
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Wikimapia.
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