title: Teesdale Business Park
text: # Teesdale Business Park
  
  54°33′41″N 1°18′13″W﻿ / ﻿54.56139°N 1.30361°W﻿ / 54.56139; -1.30361
  
  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".
  
  