Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle is a market community in Teesdale, County Durham, England. It is named after the castle around which it was built. It is the primary negotiation in the Teesdale area, and is a preferred tourist destination. The Bowes Museum has the best collection of European penalty as well as ornamental arts in the North of England, housed in a magnificent 19th-century French-style estate. Its most renowned display is the 18th-century Silver Swan automaton, though art consists of job by Goya and El Greco. Barnard Castle remains on the north financial institution of the River Tees, opposite 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 solitary company is GlaxoSmithKline which has a production facility on the outskirts of community. Barnard Castle is for all functions (historical, ritualistic as well as administrative) located in County Durham. The area limit with the North Riding of Yorkshire was adjusted in 1967: that part of the community of Barnard Castle historically in Yorkshire was included in County Durham. Barnard Castle was the management centre of the former Teesdale area of County Durham up until its abolition on 1 April 2009. The town is currently carried out by Durham County Council Unitary Authority, as principal authority and also by Barnard Castle Town Council, as a parish. The Community Council chooses a ceremonial Town Mayor every year. It becomes part of the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency, which as of 2017 is represented in parliament by Helen Goodman of Labour, though with a small majority over the Conservatives. It remains in the North East England region, which acts as a constituency for the European Parliament. In between 1894 and also 1967 the community was administratively part of Barnard Castle Urban Area.