Middlesbrough, iron manufacturing and shipping town at the mouth of the Tees, in the N. of Yorkshire, 45 m. N. of York; has also shipbuilding yards and chemical works, and exports coal. It owes its growth to the discovery of one of the largest iron-fields in the country in the Cleveland hills, near at hand, in 1850.
Population (circa 1900) given as 99,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Middle Passage * Middlesex