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  1. Industrial town and port on the Tees,
  2. Cleveland, England, commercial and cultural
  3. centre of the urban area formed by
  4. Stockton-on-Tees, Redcar, Billingham,
  5. Thornaby, and Eston; population (1983)
  6. 148,400. Formerly a centre of heavy industry,
  7. it diversified its products in the 1960s. It
  8. is the birthplace of the navigator Captain
  9. James Cook (1728-79).
  10.