Editing Teesside (section)

==History==
{{see also|Langbaurgh Wapentake|Sadberge (wapentake)|History of Yorkshire|County Palatine of Durham}}

===1968–1974: County borough===
{{main| County Borough of Teesside}}
[[File:Middlesbrough Town Hall Summer 2013.jpg|thumb|[[Middlesbrough Town Hall]], built in 1889]]
Before the county of [[Cleveland (county)|Cleveland]] was created, the area (including Stockton-on-Tees) existed as a part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, due to most land being south of the Tees. Teesside was created due to Stockton-on-Tees being linked heavily with [[Thornaby]] (which had amalgamated with South Stockton/Mandale to form the Borough of Thornaby), Middlesbrough and Redcar by industry.<ref>{{cite web |title=Thornaby |publisher=Cleveland & Teesside Local History Society |url=http://ctlhs.co.uk/golden-jubilee/fifty-interesting-places/thornaby/ |access-date=8 October 2019}}</ref>

Compared to the modern Teesside conurbation, the area was smaller, then excluding towns such as Hartlepool, [[Ingleby Barwick]] and [[Yarm]], the latter two being in the [[Stokesley Rural District]] until Cleveland was created. The Teesside name is still used as a synonym for Tees Valley with most signage and local business retaining the name.<ref>{{cite book |last=Youngs |first=Frederic&nbsp; A. Jr. |title=Guide to the Local Administrative Units of England, Vol.2: Northern England |publisher=[[Royal Historical Society]] |year=1991 |isbn=0-86193-127-0 |location=London |pages=661–667, 788–789}}</ref>

===1969: Redcliffe-Maud Report===
The [[Royal Commission]], proposed in the [[Redcliffe-Maud Report]], a large unitary authority called Teesside. It would have covered what came to be the [[County of Cleveland]] in addition to [[Whitby]] and [[Stokesley]].

===1974–1996: Non-metropolitan county===
{{multiple images|
|perrow=2
|total_width=350px
|image1=The Middlesbrough Empire, Corporation Road, Middlesbrough (geograph 7004630).jpg
|image2=Stockton-on-Tees (33124949220).jpg
|image3=High Street East, Redcar (geograph 5470137).jpg
|image4=Historic Quay, Hartlepool - geograph.org.uk - 1606300.jpg
|footer=[[Middlesbrough]], [[Stockton-on-Tees]], [[Redcar]] and [[Hartlepool]]}}
{{further|Cleveland (county)}}
The County of Cleveland was created in 1974. It was smaller and included a county and four borough councils than the Redcliffe-Maud report's single council.

The name was also changed from Teesside to Cleveland as the report's area South of the River Tees corresponded to the Langbaurgh Wapentake, which had the alternative name of [[Cleveland, Yorkshire|Cleveland]]. [[Cleveland Police]] was retained, along with other institutions covering the four boroughs. Each borough became a unitary authority with the county council abolished in 1996.

===From 2016: Mayoralty===
{{main|Tees Valley}}
In 1998 the neighbouring [[Borough of Darlington]] gained unitary authority status. [[Tees Valley]] was initially a statistical sub-region of North East England across the four former Cleveland boroughs and the Borough of Darlington.

This name and area carried over to an [[enterprise partnership]] formed in 2011 and a [[combined authority]] created in 2016, twenty years after the abolition of the Cleveland county. The authority is headed by a mayor, presently William Boyle.