Teesdale was, from 1974 to 2009, a local government district in County Durham, England.

Its council was based in Barnard Castle and it was named after the valley of the River Tees.

That part of the district south of the River Tees is historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and made up Startforth Rural District before the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect in 1974.

It also had the third-lowest population density in England, after the former districts of Eden in Cumbria and Tynedale in Northumberland.

The district was abolished as part of the 2009 structural changes to local government in England.