Teesdale Business Park is a major business park on the former site of Head Wrightsons

Head Wrightsons

Head Wrightson was a big heavy industrial firm based at Thornaby-on-Tees on Teesside in England. They specialised in the manufacture of large industrial products such as fractional distillation columns that needed special transport to get them to site...

' Teesdale works in Thornaby-on-Tees

Thornaby-on-Tees

Thornaby-on-Tees is a town and civil parish within the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire, England. It is on the south bank of the River Tees, three miles southeast of Stockton-on-Tees, and four miles southwest of Middlesbrough town centre and has a...

 in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees (borough)

Stockton-on-Tees is a unitary authority area and borough in the Tees Valley area of north east England, with a population in 2001 of 178,408, rising to 185,880 in 2005 estimates....

, England. The park was redeveloped by the Teesside Development Corporation

Teesside Development Corporation

The Teesside Development Corporation was a government-backed development corporation that was established in 1987 to fund and manage regeneration projects in the former-county of Cleveland in North East England....

. The area is immediately north of Thornaby railway station

Thornaby railway station

Thornaby railway station serves the town of Thornaby-on-Tees and due to having better connections than Stockton railway station also much of Stockton-on-Tees. It is located in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees and in the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire...

, bounded by the River Tees

River Tees

The River Tees is in Northern England. It rises on the eastern slope of Cross Fell in the North Pennines, and flows eastwards for 85 miles to reach the North Sea between Hartlepool and Redcar.-Geography:...

 and the Tees Valley Line

Tees Valley Line

The Tees Valley Line is a name for the railway route between Bishop Auckland and Saltburn via Darlington and Middlesbrough. Also operated on the line are services from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Middlesbrough and Saltburn via Darlington....

 (railway line). It is a short distance from Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees

Stockton-on-Tees is a market town in north east England. It is the major settlement in the unitary authority and borough of Stockton-on-Tees. For ceremonial purposes, the borough is split between County Durham and North Yorkshire as it also incorporates a number of smaller towns including...

 town centre and is connected to Stockton via the Victoria Bridge

Victoria Bridge (Stockton-on-Tees)

The Victoria Bridge is a road bridge carrying Bridge Road east west across the River Tees between Stockton-on-Tees and Thornaby-on-Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in the north east of England.The bridge is just south east of Stockton town centre....

, Teesquay Millennium Bridge footbridge, Princess of Wales Bridge

Princess of Wales Bridge

The Princess of Wales Bridge is a dual carriageway road bridge carrying the Teesdale Boulevard across the River Tees in Stockton-on-Tees in the Northeast of England. The bridge links on the south bank of the river, Teesdale Business Park in Thornaby-on-Tees to the north bank at the north end of...

 and Infinity Bridge

Infinity Bridge

The Infinity Bridge is a public pedestrian and cycle footbridge across the River Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in the north east of England...

 footbridge.

Buildings and organisations

The area consists of the following buildings, businesses and organisations.

• Advance House, St. Mark's Court - housing Stockton Probation, and the Commission for Social Care Inspection
• Alexander’s Car Showroom
• Barclaycard House, Massey Road - housing Barclaycard
  Barclaycard
  Barclaycard, part of Barclays Retail and Business Banking, is a global payment business. The Barclaycard was the first credit card introduced in the UK, coming into service in 1966. It enjoyed a monopoly until the introduction of the Access card in 1972....
  
  
• Barclays House, Sabatier Close - housing Barclays
• Camden House, Prince's Wharf / Council of Europe Boulevard - housing CEMEX
  Cemex
  CEMEX is the world's largest building materials supplier and third largest cement producer. Founded in Mexico in 1906, the company is based in Monterrey, Mexico...
  
   and Dickinson Dees
  Dickinson Dees
  Dickinson Dees LLP is a UK top 59 law firm headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne.The practice employs around 600 staff and has 60 partners across its offices in Newcastle, Tees Valley, York and meeting rooms in London....
  
  
• Cavendish House, Prince's Wharf / Council of Europe Boulevard - housing Serco Group
  Serco Group
  Serco Group plc is a government services company based in Hook, North Hampshire in the United Kingdom. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.-History:...
  
  . Once housing One NorthEast
  One NorthEast
  One North East is the regional development agency for the North East England region.-History:It was established in April 1999. The North East receives a lot of government aid for regeneration....
  
   and Tees Valley Regeneration
  Tees Valley Regeneration
  Tees Valley Regeneration was an urban regeneration company covering the Tees Valley area of North East England and at one time was the largest urban development agency in England...
  
   development agencies
• Christine House, Sorbonne Close - housing Turner and Townsend, TABS Recruitment, Middlesbrough Recruitment
• Churchill House, Pearson Court, Pearson Way - housing Churchill Insurance
• Clearwater House, Columbia Drive - housing Santander
  Grupo Santander
  The Santander Group is a banking group centered on Banco Santander, S.A., the largest bank in the Eurozone and one of the largest banks in the world in terms of market capitalisation. According to Forbes Magazine Global 2000, it is the 13th largest public company in the world...
  
  's Geoban formerly Abbey
  Abbey (bank)
  Abbey National plc was a UK-based bank and former building society, which latterly traded under the Abbey brand name. It became a wholly owned subsidiary of Grupo Santander of Spain in 2004, and was rebranded as Santander in January 2010, forming Santander UK along with the savings business of the...
  
   mortgage operations
• Crutes House, Fudan Way - housing Crutes Law Firm and accountants Tait Walker
• Dunedin House, Columbia Drive - housing Standard Life
  Standard Life
  Standard Life plc is a long term savings and investment business, with headquarters in Edinburgh and operations across the globe. It has 1.5 million shareholders in more than 50 countries and over 6 million customers.-History:...
  
  , Atkins, Halcrow Group Limited
  Halcrow Group Limited
  Halcrow Group Limited is an engineering consultancy company, based in the United Kingdom.Halcrow is one of the UK's leading consultancies, with a pedigree stretching back to 1868. The UK-based consultancy specialises in the provision of planning, design and management services for infrastructure...
  
  , Choice Holidays, and Energy Solutions International
• Endeavour House, St. Mark's Court - housing the Endeavour Housing Association and Teesdale Housing Association
• Florence House, Pearson Court, Pearson Way - housing Terra Nitrogen (UK) Limited
• George Stephenson House, St Mark's Court - housing HM Revenue and Customs
• Kvaerner
• OBC House, Sabatier Close - housing OBC Shipping Ltd
• Primecare - Cleveland, Massey Road
• Petroplus
  Petroplus
  Petroplus Holdings AG is Europe's largest independent oil refiner.-History:When the company first formed in 1993 it was known as Petroplus International N.V. being based in the Netherlands. In 1997, it acquired the Antwerp N.V. Refinery from the Daewoo Group. In August 1998, it was listed on the...
  
   in St. Mark's Court
• Progress House, Fudan Way - housing the White Young Green Group
• PX House, Westpoint Road - housing PX Ltd (formerly part of Enron
  Enron
  Enron Corporation was an American energy, commodities, and services company based in Houston, Texas. Before its bankruptcy on December 2, 2001, Enron employed approximately 22,000 staff and was one of the world's leading electricity, natural gas, communications, and pulp and paper companies, with...
  
  ) a provider of operations, management and maintenance solutions
• Radio House, Yale Cresent, housing TFM Radio
  TFM Radio
  TFM Radio is a Thornaby-on-Tees based Independent Local Radio station. Launched in June 1975 as Radio Tees, with the callsign "You've got a friend on 257" it was the first independent local radio station serving the area of the Tees Valley with parts of North Yorkshire and County Durham...
  
   and Magic 1170
  Magic 1170
  Magic 1170 is an Independent Local Radio station which broadcasts to Teesside, County Durham and North Yorkshire from its studios in Thornaby. It is the AM sister station of TFM Radio.-History:...
  
  
• Richard House, Sorbonne Close - housing Ofsted
  Ofsted
  The Office for Standards in Education, Children's Services and Skills is the non-ministerial government department of Her Majesty's Chief Inspector of Schools In England ....
  
  , TJ Hazel (Engineering Consultants) Ltd., Public Lending Right
  Public Lending Right
  A Public Lending Right program, is a program intended to either compensate authors for the potential loss of sales from their works being available in public libraries, or as a governmental support of the arts, through support of works available in public libraries, such as books, music and...
  
   and Safe in Tees Valley Ltd.
• Robert House, Westpoint Road / Merchants Wharf - housing Sanderson Weatherall, the Co-op Insurance Society and Barwick Systems
• St. Mark's House, St. Mark's Court - housing the DVLA, the Valuation Office Agency and the Insolvency Service
  Insolvency Service
  The Insolvency Service is an executive agency of the United Kingdom's Department for Business, Innovation and Skills which:* administers and investigates the affairs of bankrupts, of companies and partnerships wound up by the court, and establishes why they became insolvent;* acts as...
  
  
• Swan House, Westpoint Road - housing the Environment Agency
  Environment Agency
  The Environment Agency is a British non-departmental public body of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and an Assembly Government Sponsored Body of the Welsh Assembly Government that serves England and Wales.-Purpose:...
  
  
• Swiftcover
  Swiftcover
  Swiftcover was formed in 2005 by a group of former Churchill Insurance executives. In 2007 AXA UK acquired swiftcover.com. It is now a wholly owned subsidiary of AXA UK plc which forms part of AXA Group. It claims to be the only 100% online internet based insurance company in the UK, and that it...
  
  , Fudan Way
• Teesdale House, Westpoint Road - housing the North East NHS Strategic Health Authority
  NHS Strategic Health Authority
  NHS strategic health authorities are part of the structure of the National Health Service in England. Each SHA is responsible for enacting the directives and implementing fiscal policy as dictated by the Department of Health at a regional level. In turn each SHA area contains various NHS trusts...
  
  
• VAI House, Fudan Way - housing Siemens
  Siemens
  Siemens may refer toSiemens, a German family name carried by generations of telecommunications industrialists, including:* Werner von Siemens , inventor, founder of Siemens AG...
  
   VAI (UK)
• Victoria House, Pearson Way - housing the stockbrokers Gerrard
• Westminster House, St. Mark's Court - housing Endeavour Partnerships and LJJ Contractors.

Educational institutions

• Durham University - Queen's Campus
  • George Stephenson College
    George Stephenson College
    Stephenson College is a college of the University of Durham in England, and one of two located at Queen's Campus in Stockton-on-Tees, south of the city of Durham itself...
    
    , East Drive
  • John Snow College
    John Snow College
    John Snow College is a college of the University of Durham in England, and one of two located at Queen's Campus in Thornaby-on-Tees, south of the city of Durham itself...
    
    , Sorbonne Close
• Stockton Riverside College
  Stockton Riverside College
  Stockton Riverside College is a further education college located in Stockton-on-Tees in North East England.The college offers a range of courses for students from Stockton-on-Tees and the surrounding area. These courses include Diplomas, NVQs, BTECs and ESOL programmes...
  
  , Harvard Avenue

Shops and services

• Sainsburys Local, Yale Crescent
• Teesdale Children's Day Nursery, Yale Crescent.

Public houses

• The Dubliners - Bridge Street.

Residential and nursing homes

• Alison House Residential Care Home, Fudan Way
• Kirkdale Nursing Home, Radcliffe Crescent
• Teesdale Lodge Nursing Home, Radcliffe Crescent.

Residential Properties

• Anchorage Mews
• Claremont Court, Stanford Close
• Grosvenor House, Sorbonne Close
• Harriet House, Sorbonne Close
• Helen House, Sorbonne Close
• Rochester Court, Stanford Close
• The Waterside, Sorbonne Close
• Trinity Mews.

Roads

• Chapel Street
• Claremont Court
• Columbia Drive
• Council of Europe Boulevard
• East Drive
• Fudan Way
• Harvard Avenue
• Massey Road
• Pearson Way
• Princeton Drive
• Radcliffe Crescent
• Sabatier Close
• Sorbonne Close
• St. Mark's Court
• Stanford Close
• Station Street
• Teesdale Boulevard
• Trinity Mews
• University Boulevard
• Westpoint Road
• Yale Crescent.

Bridges

• Teesquay Millennium Footbridge
  Teesquay Millennium Footbridge
  Teesquay Millennium Footbridge is a footbridge crossing east-west over the river Tees, in Stockton-on-Tees in the Northeast of England. The bridge links Teesdale Business Park and the University of Durham, Queen's Campus in Thornaby-on-Tees to the Castlegate Centre in Stockton-on-Tees High Street...
  
  
• Princess of Wales Bridge
  Princess of Wales Bridge
  The Princess of Wales Bridge is a dual carriageway road bridge carrying the Teesdale Boulevard across the River Tees in Stockton-on-Tees in the Northeast of England. The bridge links on the south bank of the river, Teesdale Business Park in Thornaby-on-Tees to the north bank at the north end of...
  
  
• Infinity Bridge
  Infinity Bridge
  The Infinity Bridge is a public pedestrian and cycle footbridge across the River Tees in the borough of Stockton-on-Tees in the north east of England...
  
  

Water features

• Merchants Wharf
• Prince's Wharf
• St. Mark's Basin south east of the Teesquay Millennium Bridge.

Historic note

In 1987 after Head Wrightsons' Teesdale Works closed and the site was cleared the then prime minister Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Thatcher

Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1979 to 1990...

 visited the site as part of her visit to Teesside to open the Teesside Development Corporation

Teesside Development Corporation

The Teesside Development Corporation was a government-backed development corporation that was established in 1987 to fund and manage regeneration projects in the former-county of Cleveland in North East England....

and made what has been termed, her Walk in the wilderness.