Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle is a market community in Teesdale, Region Durham, England. It is called after the castle around which it was built. It is the primary negotiation in the Teesdale location, and also is a preferred vacationer location. The Bowes Museum has the best collection of European fine and decorative arts in the North of England, housed in a stunning 19th-century French-style chateau. Its most well-known exhibit is the 18th-century Silver Swan automaton, though art consists of job by Goya and El Greco. Barnard Castle rests on the north bank of the River Tees, opposite Startforth as well as 21 miles (34 kilometres) south-west of the county town of Durham. Nearby towns consist of Bishop Auckland to the north-east, Darlington to the eastern and also Richmond in North Yorkshire to the south-east. Barnard Castle's largest solitary employer is GlaxoSmithKline which has a manufacturing center on the outskirts of town. Barnard Castle is for all purposes (historical, ritualistic and also administrative) situated in County Durham. The area boundary with the North Riding of Yorkshire was changed in 1967: that part of the community of Barnard Castle historically in Yorkshire was added to County Durham. Barnard Castle was the management centre of the former Teesdale district of County Durham till its abolition on 1 April 2009. The community is now carried out by Durham County Council Unitary Authority, as major authority as well as by Barnard Castle Town Council, as a church. The Town Council chooses a ceremonial Town Mayor yearly. It becomes part of the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency, which as of 2017 is stood for in parliament by Helen Goodman of Labour, though with a little majority over the Conservatives. It is in the North East England region, which works as a constituency for the European Parliament. Between 1894 as well as 1967 the town was administratively part of Barnard Castle Urban District.
