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Since about 1990 when the Tees Newport Bridge was locked down, ships of any decent size have not been able to go any further upriver than the Newport area of Middlesbrough and only relatively small craft can negotiate the Tees Barrage. Stockton-on-Tees can only be called a port in the sense that ships dock at various places on the Billingham side of the river (which is in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees) that runs all the way down to Teesmouth. In what sense is the town of Stockton-on-Tees a port? Stockton docks have long gone. Middlesbrough and Teesport ( Redcar and Cleveland) however are definitely ports. Your thoughts on the matter. Stuffed cat ( talk) 11:30, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
just to flag up the fact that the article content before the Contents should be a summary of the main article. Here, we've got most information in the summary than the main article. if I have time I'll work on this. Rikstar 409 18:26, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
The entire Geography section looks to have been lifted verbatim from The Tees River Trust web site [1] which is copyrighted. If this is the case, this whole section needs to be rewritten to avoid copyright violation. The information in it is very useful, it just needs to be rewritten. Rimmer1993 ( talk) 22:06, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for looking into that. Doesn't hurt to have it on record now. I too have my concerns over the use of the phrase "subsumes no important tributaries". The use of the word "important" is subjective and would need backing up, especially as there are 4 officially recognised rivers that flow into the Tees (
Leven,
Skerne,
Greta and
Lune).
Rimmer1993 (
talk)
22:42, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
The length given for the Tees in the article currently is 137km / 85 miles. This figure is unreferenced so we don't know where it came from. I've made my own measurement recently using the tool available on the wheresthepath website (you can try it too!) and, after painstaking effort tracing every last curve at appropriate scales, that gave me a figure of 158.3km / 97.4 miles from the source to the county limit between the breakwaters where the estuary empties into Tees Bay. I'm confident of the measurement to within 1% - but of course this figure is original research on my part so may not be used in the article. However it does give a guide as to what an accurate external reference might look like when found. Interestingly, the length of the river before the modern era would have been rather longer prior to the creation of Cow Green Reservoir (1km/0.6 mile reduction) and the cutting of navigation channels at Middlesbrough (5km / 3miles reduction), in fact exceeding the 100 mile figure. thanks Geopersona ( talk) 20:23, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
I have just created a new section. I know it is long and I intend to post a request for a new page with the same title at Requested_articles/Natural_sciences#Environment_and_geology Please don't reduce my new paragraph until sufficient time has elapsed for a new article covering this subject has been created. 109.148.86.205 ( talk) 02:01, 6 February 2022 (UTC)
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Since about 1990 when the Tees Newport Bridge was locked down, ships of any decent size have not been able to go any further upriver than the Newport area of Middlesbrough and only relatively small craft can negotiate the Tees Barrage. Stockton-on-Tees can only be called a port in the sense that ships dock at various places on the Billingham side of the river (which is in the Borough of Stockton-on-Tees) that runs all the way down to Teesmouth. In what sense is the town of Stockton-on-Tees a port? Stockton docks have long gone. Middlesbrough and Teesport ( Redcar and Cleveland) however are definitely ports. Your thoughts on the matter. Stuffed cat ( talk) 11:30, 21 May 2009 (UTC)
just to flag up the fact that the article content before the Contents should be a summary of the main article. Here, we've got most information in the summary than the main article. if I have time I'll work on this. Rikstar 409 18:26, 12 June 2009 (UTC)
The entire Geography section looks to have been lifted verbatim from The Tees River Trust web site [1] which is copyrighted. If this is the case, this whole section needs to be rewritten to avoid copyright violation. The information in it is very useful, it just needs to be rewritten. Rimmer1993 ( talk) 22:06, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
Thanks for looking into that. Doesn't hurt to have it on record now. I too have my concerns over the use of the phrase "subsumes no important tributaries". The use of the word "important" is subjective and would need backing up, especially as there are 4 officially recognised rivers that flow into the Tees (
Leven,
Skerne,
Greta and
Lune).
Rimmer1993 (
talk)
22:42, 13 December 2012 (UTC)
The length given for the Tees in the article currently is 137km / 85 miles. This figure is unreferenced so we don't know where it came from. I've made my own measurement recently using the tool available on the wheresthepath website (you can try it too!) and, after painstaking effort tracing every last curve at appropriate scales, that gave me a figure of 158.3km / 97.4 miles from the source to the county limit between the breakwaters where the estuary empties into Tees Bay. I'm confident of the measurement to within 1% - but of course this figure is original research on my part so may not be used in the article. However it does give a guide as to what an accurate external reference might look like when found. Interestingly, the length of the river before the modern era would have been rather longer prior to the creation of Cow Green Reservoir (1km/0.6 mile reduction) and the cutting of navigation channels at Middlesbrough (5km / 3miles reduction), in fact exceeding the 100 mile figure. thanks Geopersona ( talk) 20:23, 8 February 2021 (UTC)
I have just created a new section. I know it is long and I intend to post a request for a new page with the same title at Requested_articles/Natural_sciences#Environment_and_geology Please don't reduce my new paragraph until sufficient time has elapsed for a new article covering this subject has been created. 109.148.86.205 ( talk) 02:01, 6 February 2022 (UTC)