Billingham

Billingham est une ville et une paroisse civile du district de Stockton-on-Tees, dans le comté de Durham, dans le nord-est de l'Angleterre. Elle comptait 35 765 habitants en 2006. Elle a été fondée vers 650 par les Billas, un peuple Saxon, dont le nom serait à l'origine de celui de la ville. Dans l'histoire moderne, l'industrie chimique, et en particulier la société Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), a joué un rôle important dans le développement de la ville. ICI n'a plus d'acitivité à Billingham. D'autres sociétés de cette branche sont cependant toujours présentes.

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Billingham is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England. The town is on the north side of the River Tees and is governed as part of the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees unitary authority. It had a population of 33,927, in the 2021 census. The settlement has existed since Anglo-Saxon times as a village. A post-Second World War town centre was built north of the old village centre on the town's grange. It was a township, with an urban district, from 1923, until 1968, when it was absorbed into the County Borough of Teesside, and later part of the county of Cleveland. Billingham is home to the Billingham Manufacturing Plant which is a major producer of chemicals for agriculture.

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St Michael's Catholic Academy, Billingham

St Michael's Catholic Academy (formerly St Michael's Roman Catholic School) is a co-educational Roman Catholic secondary school with academy status, located in Billingham, the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, England. The school converted to academy status on 2 September 2013 under the sponsorship of Bishop Hogarth Catholic Educational Trust. The headteacher of the school is Clare Humble. St Micheal's Catholic Academy was funded by the Government's Building Schools for the Future investment scheme, St. Michael's was then to be relocated to a site adjacent to Billingham Campus School in the second wave of funding from the programme. However, following the scrapping of the program in 2010, the relocation was cancelled. The new school building was opened in 2016, and the old school buildings have since been demolished.

Billingham railway station

Billingham is a railway station on the Durham Coast Line, which runs between Newcastle and Middlesbrough via Hartlepool. The station, situated 10 miles 8 chains (16.3 km) north-west of Middlesbrough, serves the town of Billingham, Borough of Stockton-on-Tees in County Durham, England. It is owned by Network Rail and managed by Northern Trains.

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Billingham Campus School and Arts College

Billingham Campus School and Arts College was a co-educational comprehensive secondary school and Specialist Arts College, located on Marsh House Avenue in the town of Billingham, England.

Tees Valley

Tees Valley is a combined authority area in North East England, around the lower River Tees. The area is not a geographical valley. The combined authority covers five council areas: Darlington, Hartlepool, Middlesbrough, Redcar and Cleveland and Stockton-on-Tees: this includes areas in both County Durham and North Yorkshire counties. The town of Middlesbrough is the largest population centre in the area. The borough of Middlesbrough is the smallest of the five, at only 54 square kilometres (21 sq mi) and a population of 156,161: the Stockton-on-Tees borough (including multiple towns) is the largest with an area of 205 square kilometres (79 sq mi) and a population of 206,800, as of 2024. From 1968 until 1974, parts of the area were included in the County Borough of Teesside council area. This was replaced by Cleveland county; it had four borough councils which became unitary authorities after the county was abolished in 1996. Darlington became a unitary authority in 1997; the five authorities formed a Local Enterprise Partnership in 2011, further collaboration between the five authorities lead to Tees Valley Combined Authority being created in 2016.