Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle is a market community in Teesdale, County Durham, England. It is called after the castle around which it was constructed. It is the main settlement in the Teesdale location, and also is a popular tourist destination. The Bowes Museum has the very best collection of European fine and ornamental arts in the North of England, housed in an amazing 19th-century French-style estate. Its most famous exhibition is the 18th-century Silver Swan robot, though art consists of work by Goya and also El Greco. Barnard Castle sits on the north financial institution of the River Tees, opposite Startforth and also 21 miles (34 kilometres) south-west of the county town of Durham. Close-by towns consist of Bishop Auckland to the north-east, Darlington to the east and Richmond in North Yorkshire to the south-east. Barnard Castle's biggest single employer is GlaxoSmithKline which has a production center on the borders of town. Barnard Castle is for all functions (historic, ritualistic and administrative) located in County Durham. The region boundary with the North Riding of Yorkshire was readjusted in 1967: that part of the community of Barnard Castle traditionally in Yorkshire was contributed to County Durham. Barnard Castle was the management centre of the former Teesdale area of County Durham until its abolition on 1 April 2009. The community is now administered by Durham County Council Unitary Authority, as primary authority and also by Barnard Castle Town Council, as a church. The Town Council chooses a ceremonial Town Mayor yearly. It becomes part of the Bishop Auckland legislative constituency, which as of 2017 is represented in parliament by Helen Goodman of Labour, though with a tiny bulk over the Conservatives. It remains in the North East England region, which acts as a constituency for the European Parliament. Between 1894 and also 1967 the town was administratively part of Barnard Castle Urban Area.
