Stockton on Tees, County Durham : Place names

Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Stockton on Tees. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name	Author	Source
NORTH STOCKTON	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
SOUTH STOCKTON	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
STOCKTON	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
	Daniel Defoe	A tour thro' the whole island of Great Britain, divided into circuits or journies (London: JM Dent and Co, 1927).
	George Head	A Home Tour through the Manufacturing Districts of England in the Summer of 1835 (New York: Harper and Brothers, 1836).
	Thomas Pennant	A Tour in Scotland 1769 (London: Benjamin White, 1776).
	John Wesley	The Journal of John Wesley (Grand Rapids, Michigan: Christian Classics Ethereal Library, 2000).
	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
STOCKTON AND DARLINGTON RAILWAY	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
STOCKTON NORTH	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
STOCKTON ON TEES	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).
	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
STOCKTON OR STOCKTON ON TEES	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Stockton on Tees. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
00EF	District/Unitary Authority (UA)	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
E110305	Local Government District (RD)
E14000970	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
E14000971	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
E14001518	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
E14001519	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
E63007405	Built-up Area	Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal (Built Up Areas (December 2024) Boundaries EW)
NORTH STOCKTON	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
SOUTH STOCKTON	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
STOCKTON	1841 Occupation reporting area	1841 Census of Great Britain, Table [1], 'Occupation Abstract'.
	Ancient District (Wd)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 662.
	Ancient District (Borough)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 663.
	Constituency (BCon/PBCon)	Great Britain Historical GIS Project
	Local Government District (RD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 667.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 664.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD)	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
	Registration sub-District	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 864.
	Sanitary District (RSD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 665.
	Urban Labour Market	Ministry of Labour, Local Unemployment Index (Ministry of Labour)
STOCKTON AND HARTLEPOOL	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD)	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
STOCKTON AND THORNABY	Urban Labour Market	Ministry of Labour, Labour Gazette (H.M.S.O.)
STOCKTON NORTH	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
STOCKTON ON TEES	Built-up Area	Office for National Statistics, Open Geography Portal (Built Up Areas (December 2024) Boundaries EW)
	Constituency (BCon/PBCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	District/Unitary Authority (UA)	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
	Local Government District (MB)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 663.
	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP/Ch)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 115.
	Sanitary District (USD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 665.
	Urban Labour Market	Great Britain Historical GIS Project
STOCKTON ON TEES AND THORNABY	Urban Labour Market	Ministry of Labour, Local Unemployment Index (Ministry of Labour)
STOCKTON ON TEES ST THOMAS	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP/Ch)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 115.
STOCKTON SOUTH	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
STOCKTON UPON TEES	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 115.
STOCKTON UPON TEES	Parish-level Unit (AP/CP/Ch)	1881 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area, Houses, and Population of Civil Parishes in the several Registration Sub-Districts in 1871 and 1881'.
STOCKTON UPON TEES HOLY TRINITY	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 115.
STOCKTON UPON TEES ST CHAD	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 115.
STOCKTON UPON TEES ST JAMES	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 16.
STOCKTON UPON TEES ST JOHN THE BAPTIST	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 116.
STOCKTON UPON TEES ST PAUL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 116.
STOCKTON UPON TEES ST PETER	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 116.
STOCKTON UPON TEES ST THOMAS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 115.
STOCKTON WEST	Constituency (BCon)	House of Commons Library, Boundary review 2023: Which seats will change in the UK?
TEESSIDE STOCKTON	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Stockton on Tees, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.

Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Stockton on Tees, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.