Barnard Castle
Barnard Castle is a market community in Teesdale, Region Durham, England. It is named after the castle around which it was developed. It is the major settlement in the Teesdale area, and is a popular vacationer destination. The Bowes Museum has the most effective collection of European fine as well as ornamental arts in the North of England, housed in a magnificent 19th-century French-style estate. Its most famous display is the 18th-century Silver Swan automaton, though art includes work by Goya as well as El Greco. Barnard Castle remains on the north bank of the River Tees, contrary Startforth as well as 21 miles (34 km) south-west of the county town of Durham. Nearby 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 employer is GlaxoSmithKline which has a production center on the outskirts of town. Barnard Castle is for all purposes (historic, ritualistic and also management) situated in Area Durham. The county boundary with the North Riding of Yorkshire was changed in 1967: that part of the town of Barnard Castle historically in Yorkshire was added to County Durham. Barnard Castle was the administrative centre of the previous Teesdale area of County Durham till its abolition on 1 April 2009. The town is now carried out by Durham County Council Unitary Authority, as major authority and also by Barnard Castle Town Council, as a church. The Community Council elects a ceremonial Town Mayor annually. It becomes part of the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency, which as of 2017 is represented in parliament by Helen Goodman of Work, though with a small majority over the Conservatives. It is in the North East England area, which serves as a constituency for the European Parliament. In between 1894 and also 1967 the community was administratively part of Barnard Castle Urban District.