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Borough of Middlesbrough

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Borough of Middlesbrough
Unitary authorityarea andborough
Middlesbrough Town Hall
Middlesbrough Town Hall
Coat of arms of Borough of Middlesbrough
Coat of arms
Motto(s):
Latin:Erimus,lit. 'we shall be'
Middlesbrough shown within North Yorkshire
Middlesbrough shown withinNorth Yorkshire
Coordinates:54°34′33″N1°14′02″W/ 54.5757°N 1.2340°W/54.5757; -1.2340
Sovereign stateUnited Kingdom
CountryEngland
RegionNorth East
Ceremonial countyNorth Yorkshire
City regionTees Valley
Incorporated1 April 1974
Unitary authority1 April 1996
Named forMiddlesbrough
Administrative HQFountain Court, Middlesbrough
Government
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• TypeUnitary authority
• BodyMiddlesbrough Council
•ExecutiveMayor and cabinet
•ControlLabour
•Elected MayorChris Cooke(L)
• ChairJulia Rostron
•MPs
2 MPs
Area
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• Total21 sq mi (54 km2)
• Rank241st
Population
(2022)[3]
• Total148,285
• Rank150th
• Density7,130/sq mi (2,752/km2)
Ethnicity(2021)
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•Ethnic groups
List
Religion(2021)
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•Religion
List
Time zoneUTC+0(GMT)
• Summer (DST)UTC+1(BST)
Postcode areas
TS1–5, TS7–8
Dialling codes01642
ISO 3166 codeGB-MDB
GSS codeE06000002
Websitemiddlesbrough.gov.uk

TheBorough of Middlesbroughis alocal government districtwithborough statusin theceremonial countyofNorth Yorkshire,England, based around the town ofMiddlesbroughin the north of the county. Since 1996, its council,Middlesbrough Council,has been aunitary authority.The borough is part of theTees Valley Combined Authority,along with the boroughs ofStockton-on-Tees,Redcar and Cleveland,HartlepoolandDarlington.There are twoparish councilsin the area of the borough of Middlesbrough,NunthorpeandStainton and Thorntonrespectively.

History

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See also:Middlesbrough Rural DistrictandOld Town Hall, Middlesbrough

From the county's creation in 1889 (from the historic subdivision ofYorkshire) areas under Middlesbrough's governance remained part ofNorth Riding of Yorkshirecounty for varing amounts of self-governance. The final iteration of this governance was reconstituted as anon-metropolitan districtin the county ofCleveland(the county itself governed from Middlesbrough) in 1974. Since 1996, forceremonial purposes,the district is part of North Yorkshire as aunitary authority.FireandPolice,however, remain as well as the borough's placement in North East England instead ofYorkshire and the Humber,which large parts of North Yorkshire is in. It is included within thecombined authorityarea ofTees Valley.

County Borough/ district
Name Type Dependant Type From Until Notes
Yorkshire Historic checkY Municipal borough 1856 1889
North Riding of Yorkshire Geographical ☒N County borough 1889 1968 Merged intoTeesside
Cleveland(county town) Non-metropolitan checkY Shire district 1974 1996
North Yorkshire Ceremonial ☒N Unitary authority 1996

Areas of the borough

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The borough contains the following areas:

Structure

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The borough is made up of 19 council wards (formerly 21 as Gresham ward merged with Newport ward between the2011and2021censuses) within the borough of Middlesbrough. Each ward has a non-statutorycommunity committee.[5]There are also two statutoryparish councilsfor "Nunthorpe" and "Stainton and Thornton".[6]East, north and west Middlesbrough as well as parts of Park End-and-Beckfield, Berwick-Hils-and-Pallister and Ladgate are covered by theMiddlesbrough parliamentary constituency.South Middlesbrough as well as the other parts of the wards are covered by theMiddlesbrough South and East Cleveland parliamentary constituency.

Skyline of Middlesbrough
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Acklam(W)
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Aryesome (W)
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Longlands and Beechwood(N)
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Berwick HillsandPallister(E)
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BramblesandThorntree(E)
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Central (N)
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Kader (W)
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Ladgate (W)
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Linthorpe(N)
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Newport (N)
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North Ormesby(E)
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Park (N)
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Park Endand Beckfield (E)
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Trimdon (W)
15
Coulby Newham(S)
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Hemlington(S)
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Marton East(S)
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Marton West(S)
19
Nunthorpe(S)
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StaintonandThornton(S)

The council operates a with directly electedMayor of Middlesbrough.The political composition of the council, as of theMay 2019 local election,is Independent 23, Labour 20; and Conservative 3.

Political party make-up of Middlesbrough Borough Council
Party Seats[7][8] Current council
Independent 23
Labour 20
Conservative 3

Teesside International Airport(formerly known as Durham Tees Valley Airport), is joint owned by the borough and the other four Tees Valley councils The council also owns multiple buildings in the borough.

Mayor

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See also:Mayor of Middlesbrough
The first ten mayors of Middlesbrough[9]
Year Name of Mayor
1853 Henry Bolckow
1854 Issac Wilson
1855 John Vaughan
1856 Henry Thompson
1858 John Richardson
1859 William Fallows
1860 George Bottomley
1861 James Harris
1862 Thomas Brentnall
1863 Edgar Gilkes
The first directly elected mayors of Middlesbrough[10]
Years Name of Mayor
2002–2015 Ray Mallon
2015–2019 Dave Budd
2019–2023 Andy Preston
2023– Chris Cooke

The first mayor of Middlesbrough was the German-born Henry Bolckow in 1853.[11][12]In the 20th century, encompassing introduction ofuniversal suffragein 1918 and changes inlocal government in the United Kingdom,the role of mayor changed and became largely ceremonial.

In 2001, as part of a wider programme of devolution, voters in Middlesbrough were offered a referendum to decide between adirectly elected mayoror thecabinet systemthen in operation, with the traditional civic and ceremonial functions of the Mayors being transferred to the Chair of Middlesbrough Council, which they did so by a large margin.[13]

In 2002, Ray Mallon (Independent), formerly a senior officer inCleveland Police,became Middlesbrough's first directly elected mayor. He was re-elected in 2007[14]and then in 2011.[15]Mallon chose not to stand for a fourth term in 2015 and his deputy mayor, Dave Budd (Labour) was elected to succeed him.[16][17]Budd decided not to stand for a second term and in the May 2019 mayoral election, local businessman Andy Preston (independent) won with 59% of the vote.[18]

Demography

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Main article:Demographics of Tees Valley

Borough

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The borough of Middlesbrough's total resident population was 148,285, by the 2022 The population of Middlesbrough as a county borough peaked at almost 165,000 in the late 1960s, however this has declined since the early 1980s before starting to recover in the 2010s.[19]

Women in the former Middlehaven ward (absorbed into the central ward) had the second lowest life expectancy at birth, 74 years, of any ward in England and Wales in 2016.[20]

Population 2011 Borough
White British 86.0%
Asian 7.8%
Black 1.3%

In the borough of Middlesbrough, 14.0% of the population were non-white British.

Economy

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Middlesbrough Town Hall, Albert Street

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Middlesbrough at current basic pricespublished(pp. 240–253) byOffice for National Statisticswith figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

Year Regional Gross Value Added4 Agriculture1 Industry2 Services3
1995 1,115 8 377 729
2000 1,192 6 417 768
2003 1,538 6 561 971

^1includes hunting and forestry

^2includes energy and construction

^3includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

^4Components may not sum to totals due to rounding

Freedom of the Borough

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The following people and military units have received theFreedom of the Boroughof Middlesbrough.

Individuals

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  • Joseph Calvert: 7 November 1919.[21]
  • L. Taylor – 30 March 1967 (deceased 23 May 1983)
  • Monsignor Canon M O'Sullivan – 26 March 1968 (deceased 6 May 1978)
  • Mary A. Daniel – 16 October 1974 (deceased 23 December 1983)
  • Ethel A. Gaunt – 16 October 1974 (deceased 10 June 1990)
  • Lord Bottomleyof Middlesbrough in the County of Cleveland – 21 December 1976 (deceased 3 November 1995)
  • E. A. Dickinson – 8 May 1981 (deceased 2001)
  • Rose M. Haston – 9 May 1986 (deceased 22 January 1991)
  • Arthur Pearson – 9 May 1986 (deceased 23 February 1997)
  • Robert I. Smith – 9 May 1986 (deceased 23 February 1993)
  • W. Ferrier – 16 June 1992 (deceased 4 March 2015)
  • G. Popple – 16 June 1992 (deceased 10 May 2003)
  • Len Poole – 16 June 1992 (deceased 15 May 2011)
  • John Robert Foster – 8 March 1996 (deceased 12 May 2022)
  • Alma Collin – 15 March 2000 (deceased 2014)
  • Hazel Pearson – 3 December 2003 (deceased 5 February 2016)
  • Steve Gibson– 18 March 2004
  • Jack Hatfield– 30 June 2009 (deceased January 2014)
  • Mackenzie Thorpe– 11 April 2019[22]
  • Gareth Southgate- 28 July 2021.[23][24][25][26]

Military units

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References

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  1. ^"Council and democracy".Middlesbrough Council.Retrieved14 July2024.
  2. ^"Mid-Year Population Estimates, UK, June 2022".Office for National Statistics.26 March 2024.Retrieved3 May2024.
  3. ^"Mid-Year Population Estimates, UK, June 2022".Office for National Statistics.26 March 2024.Retrieved3 May2024.
  4. ^abUK Census(2021)."2021 Census Area Profile – Middlesbrough Local Authority (E06000002)".Nomis.Office for National Statistics.Retrieved14 July2024.
  5. ^"Middlesbrough Registration District".UKBMD.Retrieved17 February2021.
  6. ^"Middlesbrough".Ordnance Survey.Retrieved17 February2021.
  7. ^"Local Election Results 2011 Summary".Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors. Archived fromthe originalon 23 December 2012.Retrieved22 July2011.
  8. ^"Borough and Parish Elections results - Thursday 2 May 2019".darlington.gov.uk.
  9. ^"Middlesbrough Parish information from Bulmers' 1890".GENUKI.Retrieved1 November2008.
  10. ^"Local elections 2019: the directly elected mayoral contests".Democratic Audit Website. 30 April 2019.Retrieved8 May2019.
  11. ^"Bolckow, Henry".Appletons' Annual Cyclopaedia and Register of Important Events.Vol. 18. 1886. p. 650.William Ferdinand, a British manufacturer, born in Germany in 1806, died 18 June 1878.... He was the first Mayor of Middlesbrough, a place which owes much of its prosperity to his energy and enterprise
  12. ^Up The Boro!.2011. p. 9.This was followed in 1868 by Middlesbrough's first Parliamentary Elections, in which Henry Bolckow (1806–1878) of the firm Bolckow & Vaughan wanted to stand for election, however this was initially blocked by the fact that he was a foreigner...
  13. ^"Mayoral referendum result – Middlesbrough Council".Local Government Chronicle (LGC).19 October 2001.Retrieved12 January2020.
  14. ^"2007 Mayoral election".middlesbrough.gov.uk.12 June 2017. Archived fromthe originalon 12 January 2020.Retrieved12 January2020.
  15. ^"2011 Mayoral election".middlesbrough.gov.uk.7 June 2016. Archived fromthe originalon 4 May 2019.Retrieved12 January2020.
  16. ^"2015 Mayoral election".middlesbrough.gov.uk.7 June 2016.Retrieved12 January2020.
  17. ^"Dave Budd replaces Ray Mallon as Middlesbrough mayor".BBC News.8 May 2015.Retrieved11 May2015.
  18. ^"2019 mayoral and local election".middlesbrough.gov.uk.29 April 2019.Retrieved12 January2020.
  19. ^"Middlesbrough Unitary Authority: Total Population".GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, A Vision of Britain through Time.Retrieved14 June2021.
  20. ^Bennett, James; et al. (22 November 2018)."Contributions of diseases and injuries to widening life expectancy inequalities in England from 2001 to 2016: a population-based analysis of vital registration data".Lancet public health.Retrieved23 November2018.
  21. ^"Freedom of the Borough presented to Sir Joseph Calvert 7th November 1919".11 January 2013.Retrieved29 November2020– via Flickr.
  22. ^"Middlesbrough Borough Council"(PDF).middlesbrough.gov.uk.
  23. ^"England manager Gareth Southgate given freedom of Middlesbrough".BBC News.29 July 2021.Retrieved21 August2021.
  24. ^Craigie, Emily (29 July 2021)."Gareth Southgate awarded Freedom of the Borough".The Northern Echo.Retrieved21 August2021.
  25. ^Craigie, Emily (29 July 2021)."Gareth Southgate granted prestigious Freedom of the Borough after huge public support".Teesside Gazette.Retrieved21 August2021.
  26. ^Speare-Cole, Rebecca (30 July 2021)."Gareth Southgate: England manager given Freedom of Middlesbrough award".Sky News.Retrieved21 August2021.
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