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Borough of Middlesbrough

Coordinates: 54°34′33″N 1°14′02″W / 54.5757°N 1.2340°W / 54.5757; -1.2340
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Borough of Middlesbrough
Unitary authority area and borough
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 within North Yorkshire
Coordinates: 54°34′33″N 1°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
[1]
 • TypeUnitary authority
 • BodyMiddlesbrough Council
 • ExecutiveMayor and cabinet
 • ControlLabour
 • Elected MayorChris Cooke (L)
 • ChairJulia Rostron
 • MPs
2 MPs
Area
[2]
 • Total21 sq mi (54 km2)
 • Rank241st
Population
 (2022)[3]
 • Total148,285
 • Rank150th
 • Density7,130/sq mi (2,752/km2)
Ethnicity (2021)
[4]
 • Ethnic groups
List
Religion (2021)
[4]
 • 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

The Borough of Middlesbrough is a unitary authority area with borough status in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England, based around the town of Middlesbrough in the north of the county. Middlesbrough Council became a unitary authority in 1996. The borough is part of the Tees Valley Combined Authority, along with the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar and Cleveland, Hartlepool and Darlington. There are two parish councils in the area of the borough of Middlesbrough, Nunthorpe and Stainton and Thornton respectively.

History

See also: Middlesbrough Rural District and Old Town Hall, Middlesbrough

From the county's creation in 1889 (from the historic subdivision of Yorkshire) areas under Middlesbrough's governance remained part of North Riding of Yorkshire county for varing amounts of self-governance. The final iteration of this governance was reconstituted as a non-metropolitan district in the county of Cleveland (the county itself governed from Middlesbrough) in 1974. Since 1996, for ceremonial purposes, the district is part of North Yorkshire as a unitary authority. Fire and Police, however, remain as well as the borough's placement in North East England instead of Yorkshire and the Humber, which large parts of North Yorkshire is in. It is included within the combined authority area of Tees 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 into Teesside
Cleveland (county town) Non-metropolitan checkY Shire district 1974 1996
North Yorkshire Ceremonial ☒N Unitary authority 1996

Areas of the borough

The borough contains the following areas:

Structure

The borough is made up of 19 council wards (formerly 21 as Gresham ward merged with Newport ward between the 2011 and 2021 censuses) within the borough of Middlesbrough. Each ward has a non-statutory community committee.[5] There are also two statutory parish councils for "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 the Middlesbrough parliamentary constituency. South Middlesbrough as well as the other parts of the wards are covered by the Middlesbrough 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 Hills and Pallister (E)
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Brambles and Thorntree (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 End and 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)
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Nunthorpe (S)
20
Stainton and Thornton (S)

The council operates a with directly elected Mayor of Middlesbrough. The political composition of the council, as of the May 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

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 of universal suffrage in 1918 and changes in local 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 a directly elected mayor or the cabinet system then 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 in Cleveland 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

Main article: Demographics of Tees Valley

Borough

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

Ethnic Group Year
2001 census[21] 2011 census[22] 2021 census[23]
Number % Number % Number %
White: Total 126,399 93.7% 122,055 88.1% 118,547 82.3%
White: British 124,532 92.3% 119,106 86% 114,421 79.5%
White: Irish 726 574 434
White: Roma 85 160
White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller 320
White: Other 1,141 2,290 3,212
Asian or Asian British: Total 6,415 4.7% 10,768 7.8% 15,090 10.5%
Asian or Asian British: Indian 846 1,477 2,804
Asian or Asian British: Pakistani 4,839 3.6% 6,811 8,990 6.2%
Asian or Asian British: Bangladeshi 77 244 595
Asian or Asian British: Chinese 263 904 669
Asian or Asian British: Other Asian 390 1,332 2,032
Black or Black British: Total 477 1,731 3,816 2.7%
Black or Black British: African 303 1,470 3,339
Black or Black British: Caribbean 128 92 162
Other Black 46 169 315
Mixed or British Mixed: Total 1,269 2,362 3,001
Mixed: White and Black Caribbean 317 541 570
Mixed: White and Black African 208 452 650
Mixed: White and Asian 475 904 1,110
Mixed: Other Mixed 269 465 671
Other: Total 295 1,496 3,468
Other: Arab 950 1,452
Other: Any other ethnic group 546 2,016
Non-White: Total 8,456 16,357 25,375
Total 134,855 100% 138,412 100% 143,922 100%

Economy

Middlesbrough Town Hall, Albert Street

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Middlesbrough at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by Office for National Statistics with 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

^1 includes hunting and forestry

^2 includes energy and construction

^3 includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

^4 Components may not sum to totals due to rounding

Freedom of the Borough

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Middlesbrough.

Individuals

  • Joseph Calvert: 7 November 1919.[24]
  • 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 Bottomley of 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[25]
  • Gareth Southgate - 28 July 2021.[26][27][28][29]

Military units

References

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  2. ^ "Mid-Year Population Estimates, UK, June 2022". Office for National Statistics. 26 March 2024. Retrieved 3 May 2024.
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  4. ^ a b UK Census (2021). "2021 Census Area Profile – Middlesbrough Local Authority (E06000002)". Nomis. Office for National Statistics. Retrieved 14 July 2024.
  5. ^ "Middlesbrough Registration District". UKBMD. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
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  7. ^ "Local Election Results 2011 Summary". Association of Liberal Democrat Councillors. Archived from the original on 23 December 2012. Retrieved 22 July 2011.
  8. ^ "Borough and Parish Elections results - Thursday 2 May 2019". www.darlington.gov.uk.
  9. ^ "Middlesbrough Parish information from Bulmers' 1890". GENUKI. Retrieved 1 November 2008.
  10. ^ "Local elections 2019: the directly elected mayoral contests". Democratic Audit Website. 30 April 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  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. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  14. ^ "2007 Mayoral election". www.middlesbrough.gov.uk. 12 June 2017. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  15. ^ "2011 Mayoral election". www.middlesbrough.gov.uk. 7 June 2016. Archived from the original on 4 May 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  16. ^ "2015 Mayoral election". www.middlesbrough.gov.uk. 7 June 2016. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  17. ^ "Dave Budd replaces Ray Mallon as Middlesbrough mayor". BBC News. 8 May 2015. Retrieved 11 May 2015.
  18. ^ "2019 mayoral and local election". www.middlesbrough.gov.uk. 29 April 2019. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
  19. ^ "Middlesbrough Unitary Authority: Total Population". GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, A Vision of Britain through Time. Retrieved 14 June 2021.
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  22. ^ "KS201EW (Ethnic group) - Nomis - Official Census and Labour Market Statistics". www.nomisweb.co.uk. Retrieved 8 September 2024.
  23. ^ "Ethnicity - Ethnicity by local authorities, ONS".
  24. ^ "Freedom of the Borough presented to Sir Joseph Calvert 7th November 1919". 11 January 2013. Retrieved 29 November 2020 – via Flickr.
  25. ^ "Middlesbrough Borough Council" (PDF). www.middlesbrough.gov.uk.
  26. ^ "England manager Gareth Southgate given freedom of Middlesbrough". BBC News. 29 July 2021. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  27. ^ Craigie, Emily (29 July 2021). "Gareth Southgate awarded Freedom of the Borough". The Northern Echo. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  28. ^ Craigie, Emily (29 July 2021). "Gareth Southgate granted prestigious Freedom of the Borough after huge public support". Teesside Gazette. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
  29. ^ Speare-Cole, Rebecca (30 July 2021). "Gareth Southgate: England manager given Freedom of Middlesbrough award". Sky News. Retrieved 21 August 2021.
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