Teesdale Business Park
# Teesdale Business Park

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Teesdale Business Park is a major business park on the former site of Head Wrightsons' Teesdale works in Thornaby-on-Tees, North Yorkshire, England. The park was redeveloped by the Teesside Development Corporation. The area is immediately north of Thornaby railway station.

The business park is bounded by the Tees Valley Rail-line and the River Tees. It is a short distance from Stockton-on-Tees town centre – connected via the Victoria, Teesquay Millennium, Princess of Wales and Infinity bridges.

## 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
    Barclays House, Sabatier Close – housing Barclays
    Cavendish House, Prince's Wharf / Council of Europe Boulevard – housing the Tees Valley Combined Authority, Tees Valley Unlimited LEP and Cubic Transportation Systems. Once housing One NorthEast and Tees Valley Regeneration development agencies
    Christine House, Sorbonne Close – housing Turner and Townsend, TABS Recruitment, Middlesbrough Recruitment
    Churchill House, Pearson Court, Pearson Way – formerly housing Churchill Insurance
    Clearwater House, Columbia Drive – housing Santander's mortgage operations
    Crutes House, Fudan Way – housing Crutes Law Firm and accountants Tait Walker
    Dunedin House, Columbia Drive – housing Standard Life, Atkins, Halcrow Group Limited, First Choice (travel firm) 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 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) a provider of operations, management and maintenance solutions
    Radio House, Yale Crescent, student accommodation, formerly TFM (radio) and Magic 1170
    Richard House, Sorbonne Close – housing Ofsted, TJ Hazel (Engineering Consultants) Ltd., Public Lending Right and Safe in Tees Valley Ltd.
    Robert House, Westpoint Road / Merchants Wharf – also housing PX Ltd
    St. Mark's House, St. Mark's Court – housing the DVLA, the Valuation Office Agency and the Insolvency Service
    Swan House, Westpoint Road – housing the Environment Agency
    Swiftcover, Fudan Way
    Teesdale House, Westpoint Road – housing the North East NHS Strategic Health Authority
    VAI House, Fudan Way – housing Siemens VAI (UK)
    Victoria House, Pearson Way – housing the stockbrokers Gerrard
    Visualsoft House, Prince's Wharf / Council of Europe Boulevard – housing Visualsoft and CEMEX
    Westminster House, St. Mark's Court – housing Endeavour Partnerships and LJJ Contractors.

### Educational institutions

    Durham University – Queen's Campus
       John Snow College, Sorbonne Close
       Stephenson College, East Drive
       Wolfson Research Institute, East Drive
    Stockton Riverside College, 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
    Princess of Wales Bridge
    Infinity Bridge
    Victoria Bridge

### 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 had been cleared, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher visited the site as part of her visit to Teesside to open the Teesside Development Corporation and made what has been poignantly termed her "Walk in the Wilderness".

