ABSTRACT

This chapter is an extract from a longer report of research on Newton Aycliffe undertaken by the author with the support of the Joseph Rowntree Memorial Trust This two-hundred page study, entitled Newton Aycliffe: a study of a new town, by Dr P.J. Bowden, comprises four chapters on distribution of industry policy, new towns policy, official policy towards Newton Aycliffe and a survey of firms on the industrial estate. A copy is deposited in the Library of Durham University.