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Mini Rough Guide to Middlesbrough THE MINI ROUGH GUIDE to TEESSIDE THE MINI ROUGH GUIDE to TEESSIDE THE MINI ROUGH GUIDE to TEESSIDE Credits Author: Linda Blackburne Senior Editor: Ros Walford Designer: Nicola Erdpresser Factchecking: Stuart Forster Proofreading: Alex Whittleton Cartographer: Ed Wright Senior Prepress Designer: Daniel May Production: Olivia Jeffries, Stephanie McConnell Account Manager: Michael Stanfield Publisher: Keith Drew Teesside University contributors: Editorial: Michelle Eaves, Laura Haveron Photography: Judy Hume, Rachel Lonsdale Middlesbrough Council contributors: Editorial: Rachel Grey, Yaffa Phillips This second edition published 2016 by Rough Guides Ltd, 80 Strand, London WC2R 0RL Copyright © 2014, 2016 Rough Guides Ltd. Maps © Rough Guides Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database rights 2014 002–299429–Jun/16 ISBN: 978-0-2412-8689-0 Published in association with Teesside University and Middlesbrough Council The publishers and authors have done their best to ensure the accuracy and currency of all the information in this book. However, they can accept no responsibility for any loss, injury, or inconvenience sustained by any traveller as a result of information or advice contained in the guide. Contents Introducing Teesside 4 Highlights of Teesside 4 Map of Teesside 6 Teesside’s history 8 Captain Cook 10 Did you know? 12 Who’s who 14 Cultural events 16 Teesside University 18 Green spaces 20 Galleries and museums 22 Sculpture trail 24 Sports 26 Outdoor activities 28 Walking and cycling routes 30 Children’s activities 32 Around Teesside 34 Middlesbrough 34 Map of Middlesbrough 36 Stockton-on-Tees, Preston Park and Yarm 42 Darlington 44 The River Tees 46 By the sea 48 Beyond Teesside 50 Things to do 52 Shopping 52 Music and entertainment 54 Theatre, cinema and comedy 56 Where to stay 58 Where to eat 60 Drinking and nightlife 62 Picture credits & resources 64 Canopy by Martin Donlin 4 INTRODUCING TEESSIDE TEESSIDE mima; leafy Albert Park; Middlesbrough Football Club Highlights of Teesside Teesside is known for its eclectic mix of Driving alongside the River Tees through industry, culture and striking scenery. the towns of Middlesbrough, Stockton- From the working docks of the Tees on-Tees and Yarm, you’ll come across Estuary to the area’s vibrant towns and two top attractions that are inextricably glorious countryside, this is a place linked to the region’s industrial past: the where old and new, urban and rural, iconic Tees Transporter Bridge, one of and culture and commerce converge. only a few bridges in the world to use a gondola for transportation, and the watersports haven of the Tees Barrage. While these remnants of Teesside’s maritime past are preserved for posterity, industry is still in full swing at Teesport, the UK’s third-largest port, which handles 40 million tonnes of cargo a year. In Middlesbrough, a regeneration Centre Square, Middlesbrough project has transformed the dockyards Middlehaven at dusk area, known as Middlehaven. Here, Parks and nature reserves punctuate you can eat at fine-dining restaurants Teesside, which lies only a stone’s beside the waterfront and the gigantic throw from the heritage coasts of sculpture Temenos, by Anish Kapoor. Northumberland and North Yorkshire. The town is also home to one of the UK’s Middlesbrough’s Albert and Stewart leading contemporary art galleries – parks offer lovely open spaces, while Middlesbrough Institute of Modern the Teesmouth National Nature Art (mima) – as well as the much-loved Reserve, located between Hartlepool Middlesbrough Football Club. and Redcar, is home to many rare plants The town is a burgeoning business and some 20,000 migratory water birds. hub. The Boho Zone attracts creative Roseberry Topping, known as the companies, while the regeneration “mini Matterhorn” of the North York of Baker Street and Bedford Street Moors National Park, lies 11km south has seen many independent eateries, of Middlesbrough. This distinctive micropubs and vintage shops flourish. peak, much loved by Teessiders, was Baker Street hosts the town’s first artisan a favourite of the British explorer and street-food market, the Orange Pip Middlesbrough son Captain Cook Market. South of the centre, the restored almost 300 years ago. Today, the North Grade-I-listed Acklam Hall provides Yorkshire-born mountaineer Alan Hinkes, Middlesbrough with a wonderful new who has scaled the world’s fourteen venue for weddings and conferences. highest peaks, still climbs it regularly. 6 MINI ROUGH GUIDE TO TEESSIDE Newcastle upon Tyne (11 miles) & Northumberland (20 miles) Newcastle upon Tyne (17 miles) & Northumberland (24 miles) A19 Seaham 0 kilometres 10 No N rth Y TEESSIDE Hetton- ork 0 miles 5 sh le-Hole ire NORTHEAST ENGLAND Whitby a nd A690 D Cl u e A167 v r e h A171 Captain Cook la a n m Memorial d H Museum e Durham r Ness Point or i t a Peterlee g North Cheek e C Sleights Brandon o a Fylingthorpe Bowburn Robin Hood’s s t Bay A169 DURHAM E TEESSIDE n Old Peak or g l r an d South Cheek a Willington e Co W as Ravenscar H r A179 t Pa e e th C r iv Spennymoor A171 le i v t R HMS Trincomalee e a LONDON la g n & Hartlepool’s d e W Maritime Experience NORTH YORK MOORS a C y o A19 A1 M a Ferryhill s A688 Hartlepool NATIONAL PARK t Sedgefield Seaton North Gare Sands Bishop A689 A689 Carew Dalby e South Gare Peninsula Cloughton Auckland n Teesmouth NNR Forest r Tees- e Coatham k mouth S Shildon Sands r A6072 e Seal Newton v i Redcar Aycliffe R Billingham Sands Railway Billingham Forum Saltholme Marske-by- NORTH SEA Museum Teesport N SEE the-Sea or th Yo y Saltburn- rks a hi re MIDDLESBROUGH W Kirkleatham an Stockton- le by-the-Sea d C MAP sda lev Heighington on-Tees Tee Cleveland Ironstone e la Mining Museum nd A68 Tees Barrage H A174 Brotton er River Tees Watersports Centre ita Boulby Staithes ge Eston Nab y A174 C Preston Park Ormesby a o Middlesbrough r W Skelton a o d st Hall o n Runswick M a Loftus ton l A66 Acklam Hall Es e SEE v Bay Head of Steam T e e A171 l CONTINUATION Captain Cook Birthplace Museum e C Railway Museum Flatts s Link C ABOVE Stewart Park Guisborough lev Train Coulby Lane eland Way Darlington Unicorn Country Guisborough Forest Egglescliffe Newham Park Centre Roseberry A66 Middlesbrough Topping R Yarm Whitby iv Durham Sports Village e ay Captain Cook’s r eesdale W Great T T Tees Valley Monument ee A19 Stokesley Ayton Danby s International Esk Valley A171 Lake DistrictLake (50 miles) Airport en Railway River Lev A1 Battersby Rive Egton A66 Hutton Great r Esk Rudby Broughton Sleights Glaisdale Grosmont International airport Archeological site/ruin NORTH YORKSHIRE NORTH YORK MOORS North York A169 Moors Railway Point of interest Country park Cl A172 ev el and NATIONAL PARK Statue/monument Nature reserve B1257 Way Goathland Museum Peak Stately home Osmotherley Leeds (47 miles) Thirsk (9 miles), Sutton Bank (14 miles) & York (32 miles) Rievaulx Abbey (9 miles) Hole of Horcum (3 miles), Go Ape Dalby Forest (7 miles) & Flamingo Land (14 miles) INTRODUCING TEESSIDE 7 Newcastle upon Tyne (11 miles) & Northumberland (20 miles) Newcastle upon Tyne (17 miles) & Northumberland (24 miles) A19 Seaham 0 kilometres 10 No N rth Y TEESSIDE Hetton- ork 0 miles 5 sh le-Hole ire NORTHEAST ENGLAND Whitby a nd A690 D Cl u e A167 v r e h A171 Captain Cook la a n m Memorial d H Museum e Durham r Ness Point or i t a Peterlee g North Cheek e C Sleights Brandon o a Fylingthorpe Bowburn Robin Hood’s s t Bay A169 DURHAM E TEESSIDE n Old Peak or g l r an d South Cheek a Willington e Co W as Ravenscar H r A179 t Pa e e th C r iv Spennymoor A171 le i v t R HMS Trincomalee e a LONDON la g n & Hartlepool’s d e W Maritime Experience NORTH YORK MOORS a C y o A19 A1 M a Ferryhill s A688 Hartlepool NATIONAL PARK t Sedgefield Seaton North Gare Sands Bishop A689 A689 Carew Dalby e South Gare Peninsula Cloughton Auckland n Teesmouth NNR Forest r Tees- e Coatham k mouth S Shildon Sands r A6072 e Seal Newton v i Redcar Aycliffe R Billingham Sands Railway Billingham Forum Saltholme Marske-by- NORTH SEA Museum Teesport N SEE the-Sea or th Yo y Saltburn- rks a hi re MIDDLESBROUGH W Kirkleatham an Stockton- le by-the-Sea d C MAP sda lev Heighington on-Tees Tee Cleveland Ironstone e la Mining Museum nd A68 Tees Barrage H A174 Brotton er River Tees Watersports Centre ita Boulby Staithes ge Eston Nab y A174 C Preston Park Ormesby a o Middlesbrough r W Skelton a o d st Hall o n Runswick M a Loftus ton l A66 Acklam Hall Es e SEE v Bay Head of Steam T e e A171 l CONTINUATION Captain Cook Birthplace Museum e C Railway Museum Flatts s Link C ABOVE Stewart Park Guisborough lev Train Coulby Lane eland Way Darlington Unicorn Country Guisborough Forest Egglescliffe Newham Park Centre Roseberry A66 Middlesbrough Topping R Yarm Whitby iv Durham Sports Village e ay Captain Cook’s r eesdale W Great T T Tees Valley Monument ee A19 Stokesley Ayton Danby s International Esk Valley A171 Lake DistrictLake (50 miles) Airport en Railway River Lev A1 Battersby Rive Egton A66 Hutton Great r Esk Rudby Broughton Sleights Glaisdale Grosmont International airport Archeological site/ruin NORTH YORKSHIRE NORTH YORK MOORS North York A169 Moors Railway Point of interest Country park Cl A172 ev el and NATIONAL PARK Statue/monument Nature reserve B1257 Way Goathland Museum Peak Stately home Osmotherley Leeds (47 miles) Thirsk (9 miles), Sutton Bank (14 miles) & York (32 miles) Rievaulx Abbey (9 miles) Hole of Horcum (3 miles), Go Ape Dalby Forest (7 miles) & Flamingo Land (14 miles) 8 MINI ROUGH GUIDE TO TEESSIDE Teesside’s history Teesside has been inhabited since a modern form of the Saxon name ancient times.
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