For all its small size and charm, the town is presided over by an old inn, The Stockton Inn ( formerly known as Colligan's Stockton Inn ).

The Stockton Inn was acquired in June 2012 by Mitch Millett.

On 12 February 1821 at the George & Dragon Inn, the meeting was held that pressed for the third and successful attempt for a Bill to give permission to build the Stockton & Darlington Railway, the world's first public railway.

Stephenson's face is shown alongside an engraving of his Rocket steam engine and the Skerne Bridge on the Stockton to Darlington Railway.

Here is an example of an IFR clearance, for a Cessna aircraft traveling from Palo Alto airport ( KPAO ) to Stockton airport ( KSCK ).

The technicians who maintain the Stockton section of the road have been persuaded by a radical social theory, Functionalism, that their role in maintaining the nation's transport infrastructure is more important than that of any other workers and that they should therefore be in control.

Gaines calls the Stockton office and learns that the leader of the rebellion is " Shorty " Van Kleeck, the chief deputy engineer of the Sacramento sector.

Asking for a parley, Gaines is taken to the Stockton office and faces Shorty.

Stockton is widely supposed to have likened Margaret Thatcher's policy of privatisation to ' selling the family silver '.

The county seat is Stockton.

Amtrak's San Joaquins Sacramento-Bakersfield trains stop at the Robert J. Cabral Station which is also used by Altamont Commuter Express trains which originate in Stockton.

RTD Hopper is a public bus service connecting Ripon, Escalon, Manteca, Lathrop, Thornton, Woodbridge, Acampo, Morada, and Linden to Stockton, Tracy, and Lodi.

The Stockton Arch is an upwarping of the crust beneath the valley sediments which extends southwest to northeast across the valley.

Randall Evan " Randy " Stonehill ( born March 12, 1952 ) is an American singer-songwriter from Stockton, California, best known as one of the pioneers of contemporary Christian music.

Fremont Street in Las Vegas, Nevada, is named in his honor, as are streets in Minneapolis, Minnesota ; River Falls, Wisconsin ; Kiel, Wisconsin ; Manhattan, Kansas ; Portland, Oregon ; Grant City, Staten Island, New York ; Tempe, Arizona ; and Tucson, Arizona, as well as several cities in California: Fremont, Monterey, Seaside, Stockton, San Mateo, San Francisco, and Santa Clara.

The county seat is Fort Stockton.

Public education in Pecos County is provided by three Independent School Districts ( ISDs ): Buena Vista, Fort Stockton, and Iraan-Sheffield.

Pecos County is home to the Midland College Williams Regional Technical Training Center ( WRTTC ), located alongside Interstate Highway 10, in Fort Stockton.

The headquarters of La Escalera Ranch, owned and operated by the Lyda family, is located south of Fort Stockton.

It is named for Stockton P. Donley, a frontier lawyer.

The sprawling 320, 000 deeded acre ( 1, 400 km² ) La Escalera Ranch is located south of Fort Stockton, Texas and is owned and operated by the Gerald Lyda family.

Her character, Vanessa Lutz, is a poor girl living in Los Angeles, who, on the way to her grandmother's home in Stockton, encounters a freeway serial killer.

Its county seat is Stockton.

According to the 2000 U. S. Census, the county has a total area of, of which ( or 95. 47 %) is land and ( or 4. 53 %) is water, including various rivers and Stockton Lake.

The county seat is Stockton and the largest city is Plainville.

Stockton, originally called Sandy Hill, grew up at the crossing of the post road from Snow Hill south to Virginia ( whose track is generally followed by modern Maryland Route 12 ) with the road from Mattapony Landing on the Pocomoke River to the Chincoteague Bay ( the eastern part of which is now Maryland Route 366 ), where ocean-going vessels could drop anchor.

Merchantville was incorporated as a borough by an act of the New Jersey Legislature on March 3, 1874, from portions of Delaware Township ( now Cherry Hill Township ) and Stockton Township.

St. Lawrence's parish is now part of a single Church of England benefice with the parishes of Lower Shuckburgh and Stockton, part of the Bridges Group of parishes.

A son of John Stockton, one of the founders of the College of New Jersey at Princeton ( now Princeton University ), he was born near Princeton, New Jersey, attended Samuel Finley's academy at Nottingham, which later became West Nottingham Academy, and the College of New Jersey located in Newark, graduating in 1748.

Previously known as " Stockton State College " and " Richard Stockton State College ", it is now known as " Richard Stockton College of New Jersey ".

The bridge at Yarm marked the furthest reach of tidal flow up the River Tees until the opening, in 1995, of the Tees Barrage, which now regulates river flow above Stockton.

The clubs assets were transferred to Norton Cricket Club, who subsequently founded the Norton & Stockton Ancients, now located in Norton and currently playing in the STL Northern League Division One.

The location where the statues stand is now the intersection of Stockton and Malone.

Metropolitan's first acquisitions under Kluge included WHK-AM – FM in Cleveland ( in 1958 ); KOVR in Stockton, California, WTVH-TV ( now WHOI ) in Peoria, Illinois, and the Foster & Kleiser outdoor advertising firm ( all in 1959 ); and WIP-AM – FM in Philadelphia and WTVP television ( now WAND ) in Decatur, Illinois ( both in 1960 ).

The cities of Stockton, California, Stockton, Missouri and Fort Stockton, Texas are named in his honor, as is the borough of Stockton, New Jersey, Stockton Street in San Francisco and Fort Stockton, San Diego, California, which is now a ruin, but was occupied during the Mexican – American War.

In a treaty of 1752, however, Massachusetts laid claim to the entire Penobscot watershed, and in 1759 the Pownall Expedition, led by Governor Thomas Pownall, established Fort Pownall on Cape Jellison in what is now Stockton Springs.

A now large port for oceangoing cargo ships is present in Stockton, which is connected to the San Francisco Bay by way of a deepwater channel along the San Joaquin River Delta.

Once a market town, for centuries Norton was the centre of an important parish which included Stockton, but its status was reversed in 1913 and Norton is now a part of the borough of Stockton on Tees.

A Roman road ran through Stockton Heath, along the route now known ( appropriately ) as Roman Road.

Early maps refer to a hamlet by the name of Stoken ( or Stocken ) where the present village of Stockton Heath now stands.

Under its terms, Cornell students participating in internships in the Atlantic City area will have the opportunity for housing at Stockton ’ s historic Seaview Resort.

In 1944, Edge purchased Morven, the historic Princeton, New Jersey home of Richard Stockton, from the Stockton family.

Located on Fullerton Parkway between Stockton and Cannon Drives, the Alfred Caldwell Lily Pool is an historic example of Prairie School landscape architecture.

On January 10, 1847, Stockton established his headquarters on Wine Street, now known as Olvera Street, in the pueblo settlement of Ciudad de Los Angeles and assisted in setting up a civil government ; that home is still standing as part of the historic area.

It is located near the historic Chinese American town of Locke, equidistant from Sacramento and Stockton.