Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle is a market town in Teesdale, County Durham, England. It is called after the castle around which it was built. It is the major negotiation in the Teesdale location, and is a popular vacationer destination. The Bowes Museum has the best collection of European penalty and also decorative arts in the North of England, housed in a spectacular 19th-century French-style chateau. Its most popular exhibition is the 18th-century Silver Swan automaton, though art includes work by Goya and also El Greco. Barnard Castle remains on the north financial institution of the River Tees, contrary Startforth and also 21 miles (34 kilometres) south-west of the county town of Durham. Nearby communities include Bishop Auckland to the north-east, Darlington to the eastern and Richmond in North Yorkshire to the south-east. Barnard Castle's biggest solitary employer is GlaxoSmithKline which has a manufacturing facility on the outskirts of community. Barnard Castle is for all purposes (historical, ritualistic and administrative) situated in Area Durham. The county border with the North Riding of Yorkshire was readjusted in 1967: that part of the town of Barnard Castle traditionally in Yorkshire was contributed to County Durham. Barnard Castle was the administrative 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 Town Council elects a ceremonial Town Mayor yearly. It becomes part of the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency, which since 2017 is represented in parliament by Helen Goodman of Work, though with a tiny bulk over the Conservatives. It is in the North East England region, 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.