Teesdale Business Park

Teesdale Business Park
Teesdale Business Park
	Teesside Development Corporation monolith at the entrance to Teesdale Business Park
Type	Business park
Location	Thornaby
Coordinates	54°33′41″N 1°18′13″W / 54.56139°N 1.30361°W
Area	Borough of Stockton-on-Tees

54°33′41″N 1°18′13″W / 54.56139°N 1.30361°W / 54.56139; -1.30361

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".^[1]^[2]^[3]

References

^ Hewison, Fergus (13 September 2007). "The Thatcher confrontation..." Politics Show. BBC News. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
^ "She brought us back from the dead". The Northern Echo. 17 May 2004. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2011.
^ Norfolk, Andrew (12 April 2013). "Posterity proves a kinder judge of 'wilderness walk'". The Times. Retrieved 10 March 2017.

External links

Wikimapia.

[WitW-1] Hewison, Fergus (13 September 2007). "The Thatcher confrontation..." Politics Show. BBC News. Retrieved 3 February 2011.

[2] "She brought us back from the dead". The Northern Echo. 17 May 2004. Archived from the original on 5 October 2012. Retrieved 3 February 2011.

[3] Norfolk, Andrew (12 April 2013). "Posterity proves a kinder judge of 'wilderness walk'". The Times. Retrieved 10 March 2017.

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