Teesside Park

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Teesside Park is a retail superstore and leisure development in the UK. Located just off the A66 near the A66/A19 interchange, it is split between the boroughs of Stockton-on-Tees (retail park) and Middlesbrough (leisure park) with the line of the Old River Tees, which runs down the middle of the development, forming the boundary between the two unitary authorities. The Stockton-on-Tees section is within the town of Thornaby-on-Tees and is all located within the ceremonial county of North Yorkshire. The driving force behind its growth was originally the Teesside Development Corporation in the late 1980s when the two current unitary authorities were part of the county of Cleveland. The parks location is often incorrectly listed as Stockton-on-Tees (for the leisure park), Teesside, Cleveland or Middlesbrough (for the retail park).

It is built on the former site of Stockton Racecourse, hence many of the park's roads being named after famous racecourses such as Aintree and Goodwood. It is home to the majority of the big out-of-town retail chains and has a large Morrisons supermarket. Its catchment area covers much of the Tees Valley.