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Billingham
Billingham in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
Billingham is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
Billingham is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England. The town is on the north side of the River Tees and is governed as part of the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees unitary authority. It had a population of 33,927, in the 2021 census. The settlement has existed since Anglo-Saxon times as a village. A post-Second World War town centre was built north of the old village centre on the town's grange. It was a township, with an urban district, from 1923, until 1968, when it was absorbed into the County Borough of Teesside, and later part of the county of Cleveland. Billingham is home to the Billingham Manufacturing Plant which is a major producer of chemicals for agriculture.
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Background
History
The town was settled by Angles and has a name either meaning Billa's people's home or bill-shaped hill people's home. The town was in one of the Northumbrian regiones. This regione is thought to cover much of the land of northern Teesdale and had late Viking rule. It was later broken up with Billingham in the Hartness district, then into a small shire called Billinghamshire. St Cuthbert's Parish Church has elements dating back to the late-7th/early-8th-century in its nave and a tower dating c. AD 1000. There is also a 7th-century grave-marker from the church in the British Museum.
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- Coordinates
- 54.6100, -1.2700
- District
- Stockton-on-Tees
- Parish
- Billingham
- Postcode
- TS23 4HF
- Parliamentary constituency
- Stockton North
Sources
- wikidata: Q862891 (CC0)
- wikipedia: Billingham (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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- Where is Billingham?
- Billingham is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.6100°, -1.2700°.