Barnard Castle is a market town in Teesdale, Area Durham, England. It is called after the castle around which it was constructed. It is the major negotiation in the Teesdale location, and is a popular vacationer destination. The Bowes Museum has the most effective collection of European fine and ornamental arts in the North of England, housed in a spectacular 19th-century French-style chateau. Its most popular exhibit is the 18th-century Silver Swan robot, though art includes job by Goya and El Greco. Barnard Castle rests on the north financial institution of the River Tees, opposite Startforth and 21 miles (34 kilometres) south-west of the county town of Durham. Neighboring towns consist of Bishop Auckland to the north-east, Darlington to the east and also Richmond in North Yorkshire to the south-east. Barnard Castle's largest solitary company is GlaxoSmithKline which has a production facility on the borders of community. Barnard Castle is for all objectives (historical, ritualistic and also administrative) situated in Area Durham. The region border with the North Riding of Yorkshire was adjusted in 1967: that part of the town of Barnard Castle traditionally in Yorkshire was included in County Durham. Barnard Castle was the administrative centre of the previous Teesdale area of County Durham till its abolition on 1 April 2009. The community is currently carried out by Durham County Council Unitary Authority, as major authority and by Barnard Castle Town Council, as a parish. The Community Council chooses a ritualistic Town Mayor each year. It becomes part of the Bishop Auckland legislative constituency, which as of 2017 is stood for in parliament by Helen Goodman of Labour, though with a tiny bulk over the Conservatives. It remains in the North East England region, which works as a constituency for the European Parliament. In between 1894 and 1967 the community was administratively part of Barnard Castle Urban Area.