Hartlepool

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Hartlepool ( HART-lih-pool) is an industrial port town, in County Durham, England. It is governed by a unitary authority borough named after the town. The borough is part of the devolved Tees Valley area, approximately 25 miles (40 km) south-west of Newcastle upon Tyne, 17 miles (27 km) south of Sunderland and 8 miles (13 km) north of Middlesbrough. The built-up area had a population of 87,984 at the 2021 Census. The old town was founded in the seventh century, around the monastery of Hartlepool Abbey, on a headland. As the village grew into a town in the Middle Ages, its harbour served as the County Palatine of Durham's official port. The new town of West Hartlepool was created in 1835, after a new port was built and railway links from the South Durham coal fields (to the west) and from Stockton-on-Tees (to the south) were created. A parliamentary constituency covering both the old town and West Hartlepool was created, in 1867, called The Hartlepools. The two towns were formally merged...

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