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Ropner Park is a free public park, located in Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England. In June 1890 Major Robert Ropner offered a piece of land, known locally as Hartburn Fields to the people of Stockton which could be used as a public park, providing the local council would lay it out 'tastefully' and ‘keep it forever’.

The Borough of Stockton-on-Tees, commonly called Stockton Borough, is a local authority borough which extends from County Durham to North Yorkshire. It is also part of the wider Tees Valley, in Northern England. The main town is Stockton, which on the north bank of the River Tees. The town and borough have a population of 82,880 and 191,600, both shown in the 2011 census.

Bowesfield Works was a railway locomotive manufacturing plant in Stockton-on-Tees. The works was operated by a joint venture company called Metropolitan Vickers-Beyer Peacock from 1949 until 1960.