Middlesbrough Travel Guide — Things to Do, Food & Hotels
town in North Yorkshire, north-east England
About Middlesbrough
—William Gladstone in 1862 – he was then Chancellor of the Exchequer, and later four times Prime Minister In 1801 the population of Middlesbrough was just 25, a farm hamlet. But from 1829 the region's coalfields and iron ores were exploited, and a new port was needed to ship them. The port area also developed a metal-bashing industry such as shipbuilding and steel production, with a line of smoke-stack works along the coast as far as Redcar. The town burgeoned, only to languish from the 1950s and 1960s as those industries lost out to the foreign competition. The Tees was the traditional northern boundary of Yorkshire, but in 1974 Middlesbrough and other industrial towns on both sides of the river passed to the new entity of Cleveland. This proved unpopular and was abolished in 1996, and Mi
Top Attractions in Middlesbrough
Explore the best things to see and do in Middlesbrough:
- ★Captain Cook Birthplace Museum
- ★Dorman Museum
- ★Middlesbrough FC
- ★Middlesbrough Theatre
- ★Middlesbrough Town Hall
- ★MIMA
- ★Ormesby Hall
- ★Tees Transporter Bridge
Where to Eat in Middlesbrough
Must-try local food and restaurants:
- 🍴Fellini's
- 🍴Jamals
Where to Stay in Middlesbrough
- 🏨Baltimore Hotel
- 🏨Holiday Inn Express
- 🏨Leonardo Hotel
- 🏨Premier Inn Middlesbrough Town
- 🏨Premier Travel Middlesbrough Central
Middlesbrough Travel Guide Sections
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