Editing Tees Valley (section)

==Background==
{{see also|County Borough of Teesside|Cleveland (county)|Teesside}}
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The [[River Tees]]' geographical valley is traditionally known as [[Teesdale]]. For centuries, north Tees was under the [[Prince-bishopric of Durham]]. Both Darlington and Stockton had ancient wards. [[Middleton St George]], Hartlepool and Billingham were in Stockton ward, the latter two were also in a district called Hartness.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/antiquities-durham/vol3/pp90-98|title=Parish of Hart|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref> South Tees was under a [[wapentake]] called [[Langbaurgh Wapentake|Langbaurgh]], which had been the Easton part of the ancient region of [[Cleveland, Yorkshire|Cleveland]], in [[Yorkshire]]'s [[North Riding]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/yorks/north/vol2/pp217-220|title=The wapentake of Langbaurgh (west): Introduction|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref>

[[Urban district council|Urban districts]] (such as [[Greater Eston|Eston]], [[Billingham]] and [[Saltburn, Marske and New Marske|Saltburn and Marske by the Sea]]) and parts of [[rural district]]s, as well as [[municipal borough]]s (such as [[Stockton-on-Tees]], [[Thornaby-on-Tees]] and [[Redcar]]) and [[county boroughs]] ([[Middlesbrough]]) were merged into the [[County Borough of Teesside]] in 1968. However in 1974, the county borough was disbanded.

The 1974 reforms created the [[county of Cleveland]], including [[Hartlepool]], the former Urban Districts of [[Guisborough]], Saltburn and Marske, Skelton and Brotton and Loftus. Four [[non-metropolitan district|boroughs]] were also created. Hartlepool, Stockton which had formerly been part of County Durham were created along with Middlesbrough and a new District Council  of Langbaurgh (this took its name from the ancient Danelaw Wapentake of Langbaurgh of which if had formed the northern part.) These had formerly being parts of the North Riding of Yorkshire.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1995/187/made|title=The Cleveland (Structural Change) Order 1995|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref>

Local government reorganisation in 1996 saw the county of Cleveland broken up: the boroughs became [[unitary authority|unitary authorities]]. The boroughs were placed into the counties of [[North Yorkshire]] and [[County Durham]] for [[ceremonial counties of England|ceremonial purposes]]. In 1997, the [[Borough of Darlington]] also became a [[unitary authority]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1997/460/made?view=plain|title=The Durham County Council (Borough of Darlington) (Staff Transfer) Order 1997|access-date=7 September 2021}}</ref>