Thornaby

Thornaby is a royal charter town, civil parish and former borough in North Yorkshire, England. Generally part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, Thornaby is arranged on the south bank of the River Tees, specifically south-east of Stockton-on-Tees and 4 mi southwest of Middlesbrough. It has a populace of 24,741 and is in the unitary specialist of Stockton-on-Tees. The name Thornaby appeared around 800 AD when the land was given by Halfdene, King of the Danes, to Thormod, one of his aristocrats, consequently "Thormods-by" – Thormod's farmstead. Despite the fact that the - by addition initially implied a farmstead, a considerable lot of these developed into towns, taking the - by postfix with them in their names similarly as with different towns in the region, for example, Danby, Faceby, Ingleby, Maltby and Ormesby.

The town is served by Thornaby railroad station. It is home to Durham University's Queen's Campus. This grounds lies on the southern bank of the Tees on the Yorkshire side in Thornaby-on-Tees, so in spite of the fact that it is a piece of Durham University, it isn't in County Durham. Durham University was the second college to be drawn closer because of Teesside University who were first drawn closer not having the assets accessible important to run the college.