Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle is a market community in Teesdale, Area Durham, England. It is named after the castle around which it was built. It is the primary settlement in the Teesdale area, and is a prominent visitor destination. The Bowes Museum has the very best collection of European fine as well as decorative arts in the North of England, housed in a splendid 19th-century French-style chateau. Its most famous exhibit is the 18th-century Silver Swan robot, though art includes job by Goya and El Greco. Barnard Castle sits on the north financial institution of the River Tees, contrary Startforth as well as 21 miles (34 kilometres) south-west of the county town of Durham. Close-by towns include Bishop Auckland to the north-east, Darlington to the east as well as Richmond in North Yorkshire to the south-east. Barnard Castle's largest single employer is GlaxoSmithKline which has a production center on the outskirts of community. Barnard Castle is for all functions (historic, ritualistic as well as management) situated in Region Durham. The county limit with the North Riding of Yorkshire was readjusted in 1967: that part of the town of Barnard Castle traditionally in Yorkshire was added to County Durham. Barnard Castle was the administrative centre of the previous Teesdale area of County Durham until its abolition on 1 April 2009. The community is now provided by Durham County Council Unitary Authority, as primary authority and by Barnard Castle Town Council, as a church. The Town Council elects a ritualistic Town Mayor yearly. It is part of the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency, which since 2017 is represented in parliament by Helen Goodman of Work, though with a little bulk over the Conservatives. It is in the North East England area, which functions as a constituency for the European Parliament. Between 1894 as well as 1967 the community was administratively part of Barnard Castle Urban District.
