This article is about the town. For the district, see Borough of Hartlepool. For the constituency, see Hartlepool (UK Parliament constituency).
Town in England
Hartlepool
Town
The Headland, St Hilda's Church, Victoria Road, the Marina and Christ Church Art Gallery
A Hart (red stag)
Hartlepool
Location within County Durham
Population
87,995
Demonym
Hartlepudlian
OS grid reference
NZ508331
• London
261 miles (420 km)
Unitary authority
Hartlepool
Ceremonial county
County Durham
Region
North East
Country
England
Sovereign state
United Kingdom
Areas of the town
List
Hart Station
Headland (parish)
Middleton
Owton
Rift House
Seaton Carew
Stranton
Throston
Post town
HARTLEPOOL
Postcode district
TS24 – TS27
Dialling code
01429
Police
Cleveland
Fire
Cleveland
Ambulance
North East
UK Parliament
Hartlepool
List of places
UK
England
County Durham
54°41′N1°13′W / 54.69°N 1.21°W / 54.69; -1.21
Hartlepool (/ˈhɑːrtlɪpuːl/HART-lih-pool) is a seaside and 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. With an estimated population of 87,995, it is the second-largest settlement (after Darlington) in County Durham.[1]
The old town was founded in the 7th 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 into a single borough called Hartlepool in 1967.[2] Following the merger, the name of the constituency was changed from The Hartlepools to just Hartlepool in 1974. The modern town centre and main railway station are both at what was West Hartlepool; the old town is now generally known as the Headland.
Industrialisation in northern England and the start of a shipbuilding industry in the later part of the 19th century meant it was a target for the Imperial German Navy at the beginning of the First World War. A bombardment of 1,150 shells on 16 December 1914 resulted in the death of 117 people in the town. A severe decline in heavy industries and shipbuilding following the Second World War caused periods of high unemployment until the 1990s when major investment projects and the redevelopment of the docks area into a marina saw a rise in the town's prospects. The town also has a seaside resort called Seaton Carew.
^"Figure 1: Explore population characteristics of individual BUAs". Retrieved 7 August 2021.
^"Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time". visionofbritain.org.uk. Archived from the original on 25 December 2017.
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