Between 1974 and 1996 most of Cleveland was incorporated into a county of the same title, formed from either area of the Northward Riding of Yorkshire & County Durham. Unlike a traditional geographic locality, a county was formed in a Tees estuary & involved lands in each sides of the flow of any stream. It excluded a southmost area of traditional Cleveland, including very much of the Cleveland Hills, although a original proposal for this county was great deal big & covered the coast down to Whitby.

A county was known as "Cleveland", instead of "Teesside" every bit originally suggested, due to fears inside areas non section of the old Teesside county borough that it represented a takeover.

A 4 districts of the County of Cleveland were Hartlepool, Langbaurgh-on-Tees, Stockton-on-Tees, and Middlesbrough. A shire town was Middlesbrough. It got the number metropolitan area of 225 square miles (583 kilometre²) & an calculated people of 567,600 within 2000. A county bordered County Durham to the north & North Yorkshire to a south, and it faced the North Sea to the east.

[http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19950187_en_1.htm The Clevel& (Structural Change) Order 1995] and [http://www.opsi.gov.uk/si/si1995/Uksi_19951747_en_1.htm The Cleveland (Further Provision) Order 1995] come into result in April 1, 1996, & renamed Langbaurgh-in-Tees to Redcar & Cleveland, abolished a County of Cleveland and created quaternion unitary authorities in its place. A burden of a 2nd the correct sequence was to abolish the county absolutely. These are non potentially retained for ceremonial purposes, by using a region existence split between a ceremonial counties of Durham and North Yorkshire. Extra usually but, a locality is today known as Tees Valley, which covers the quaternity previous Cleveland Unitary Authorities together by owning Darlington. Darlington was previously section of County Durham for administrative purposes, but became the one authority inside 1997.

Even so, a title has non been totally eliminated: Cleveland Police, Cleveland Fire Brigade, BBC Radio Cleveland and the Cleveland Family History Society still exist.

Cleveland has the important industrial heritage arising from either its central role in the 19th century iron boom that led to Middlesbrough growing from the hamlet into the major industrial town within merely two or three decades. A Cleveland Hills, in the southern part of the territory, were key provider of the ironstone that was essential to the going of the blast furnaces alongside the Flow of any stream Tees. Middlesbrough's Teesport is however one of a United Kingdom's independent ports & a metropolitan area between Middlesbrough & Redcar is however populated by numbers of heavily plant, although this is very much reduced from either its 20th century peak.

A region is pleasantly varied geographically. A Tees estuary is extremely industrialized & urbanized. Very much of the remainder of the lowland area of Cleveland is farmland. East Cleveland marks a northern prevent of a chain of drop that line the North Yorkshire Heritage Coast. South Cleveland is highly cragged, forming a escarpment of the North York Moors. One of a better known symbols of Cleveland is the distinctive hill of Roseberry Topping, which overlooks Newton-under-Roseberry on the Great Ayton to Guisborough road. Its original about cone-shaped form was undercut by extensive mining, returning it the jagged appearance that numbers of use thought evocative of the Matterhorn mountain.

Cleveland is likewise the Church of England archdeaconry, in the Diocese of York. It covers the big vicinity including Middlesbrough, Thirsk, Pickering and Whitby.

Cleveland is too a share of the Middlesbrough Catholic Diocese.

Towns and villages
Billingham Guisborough Hartlepool Middlesbrough Redcar Saltburn Stockton-on-Tees Thornaby Yarm

Geographical features

Cleveland Hills Roseberry Topping Teesmouth