History of Middlesbrough in North Riding

Place:

Middlesbrough North Riding

Names from historical writing:

The following appear as names for Middlesbrough. Follow the links for what the author actually said:

Name	Author	Source
MIDDLESBOROUGH	John Marius Wilson	Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (Edinburgh: A Fullarton & Co., 1870-72).
MIDDLESBROUGH	John Bartholomew	Gazetteer of the British Isles (Edinburgh: Bartholomew, 1887).

NB: These variant names come from our collections of historical travel writing and descriptive gazetteers:

The above links take you to the first reference to this particular version of the name within a book of travel writing, or to the relevant gazetteer entry.
Some names may derive from research by antiquarian writers such as William Camden and Thomas Pennant into the Roman, Saxon and medieval names of places. Their claims are not always supported by modern place-name researchers.
References by travel writers to the place using its "normal" name are not included. Descriptive gazetteer entries are included only if the name does not appear anywhere else.

Names for administrative units:

These names were used for units associated with Middlesbrough. Click on the links for details of the units and their names:

Name	Unit Type	Source
00EC	District/Unitary Authority (UA)	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
BILLINGHAM MIDDLESBOROUGH REDCAR SOUTH BANK AND STOCKTON AND THORNBURY	Urban Labour Market	Ministry of Labour, Labour Gazette (H.M.S.O.)
EAST CLEVELAND	Constituency (CCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
EAST MIDDLESBROUGH	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
MIDDLESBOROUGH	Parish-level Unit (CP)	1871 Census of England and Wales, Table 4, 'Area; Houses and Inhabitants, 1861 and 1871, in the Parishes and Places comprised in each Superintendent Registrar's District'.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU)	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
	Urban Labour Market	Great Britain Historical GIS Project
MIDDLESBROUGH	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	Constituency (PBCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
	District/Unitary Authority (UA)	Census of Population (2001 Key Statistics)
	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
	Local Government District (RD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 789.
	Local Government District (CB/MB)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 773.
	Manor	The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register
	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
	Poor Law Union/Reg. District (RegD/PLU)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 777.
	Registration sub-District	Registrar General, Annual Report (HM Stationery Office)
	Rural Deanery	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 872.
	Sanitary District (USD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 783.
	Sanitary District (RSD)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 783.
	Urban Labour Market	Ministry of Labour, Local Unemployment Index (Ministry of Labour)
MIDDLESBROUGH ALL SAINTS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH EAST	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
MIDDLESBROUGH EAST	Registration sub-District	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
MIDDLESBROUGH INCLUDING SOUTH BANK	Urban Labour Market	Ministry of Labour, Labour Gazette (H.M.S.O.)
MIDDLESBROUGH SOUTH AND EAST CLEVELAND	Constituency (CCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
MIDDLESBROUGH ST AIDAN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST CHAD	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST COLUMBA	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST COLUMBA WITH ST PAUL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST CUTHBERT	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST HILDA	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST HILDA	Parish-level Unit (CP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST HILDA WITH ST PETER	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST JOHN THE EVANGELIST	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST MARTIN	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST OSWALD	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST PAUL	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 583.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST PETER	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 583.
MIDDLESBROUGH ST THOMAS	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 583.
MIDDLESBROUGH THE ASCENSION	Ecclesiastical Parish (EP)	F. Youngs, Local Administrative Units: Northern England (London: Royal Historical Society, 1991), p. 582.
MIDDLESBROUGH WEST	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
MIDDLESBROUGH WEST	Registration sub-District	1911 Census of England and Wales, Table 5, 'Registration Counties, Districts and Sub-districts with their constituent civil parishes. - Urban or Rural District in which each parish is situated; Area; families or separate occupiers, and population, 1901 and 1911; and population enumerated in Institutions, large establishments, and on vessels, &c., 1911'.
NRY 0393	Manor	The National Archives, Manorial Documents Register
SOUTH MIDDLESBROUGH	Constituency (CCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
TEES SIDE	Urban Labour Market	Ministry of Labour, Labour Gazette (H.M.S.O.)
TEESSIDE MIDDLESBROUGH	Constituency (BCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)
WEST MIDDLESBROUGH	Constituency (BCon/PBDivCon)	Richard H.A. Cheffins, Parliamentary Constituencies and their registers since 1832 (London: The British Library, 1998)

NB: These are all the names of all the administrative units which we have associated with Middlesbrough, and you must judge whether all or even any of them are variant names for the place. They may well include the names of other locations or areas:

For cities, the associated administrative units will usually include parishes, especially ecclesiastical parishes, one of whose names is the name of the city followed by a saint's dedication, with just the saint's name as another variant. Parish names will sometimes also include "places" within towns.
Districts usually contain more than one settlement, and some districts had their names changed to take the name of a completely different settlement. As we link each administrative unit to just one of our "places", usually the last place the unit was named after, in these cases the name for a completely different place will appear on this page.
Similarly, a unit may sometimes be named after a particular settlement it contains and sometimes to indicate its location within a higher level unit. This was very common among British parliamentary constituencies in rural areas, one name referring to their main town and another indicating that they were in, say, the southern part of the relevant county.

Every name listed here is linked to the particular historical source in which it appears, but we cannot claim that these are all the historical names of Middlesbrough, or that our references are to the first usage of the names. Similarly, we have tried to ensure that names included here are not transcription errors by ourselves, but it is possible they are the result of errors made when the historical sources were printed, or the result of visiting authors or census officials mis-hearing local names.

How to reference this page:

GB Historical GIS / University of Portsmouth, History of Middlesbrough in North Riding | Place names, A Vision of Britain through Time.

URL: https://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/place/455/names

Date accessed: 17th March 2025