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Coordinates: 54.68892°N 1.22498°W. West Hartlepool map, 1859. West Hartlepool was a predecessor of Hartlepool, County Durham, England. It developed in the Victorian era and took the name from its western position in the parish of what is now known as the Headland .
Coordinates: 54.69°N 1.21°W. 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.
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West Hartlepool History. At the beginning of the nineteenth century it was hard to believe that Old Hartlepool, with its small population of only 993 consisting almost entirely of fishermen had been one of the busiest ports on the eastern coast.
Suburb. Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0. West Park is a suburban area of Hartlepool, County Durham, in England. West Park is situated 2 miles west of West Hartlepool. Dalton Piercy. Village. Photo: Carol Rose, CC BY-SA 2.0. Dalton Piercy is a village and civil parish in the borough of Hartlepool, County Durham, in England.
This signified the birth of West Hartlepool, a town that came to overshadow Old Hartlepool in size. The new town of West Hartlepool was built from the 1840s with many streets laid out on empty farmland in a grid iron pattern. Its subsequent rapid growth was comparable to that of Middlesbrough.
The buildings are Grade II Listed and built around 1890 - possibly by T. Lewis Banks, of London, according to the Historic England website. Both lodges are now private dwellings. An ornamental drinking fountain in the grounds of the old Gray Art Gallery and Museum in Clarence Road, Hartlepool.
May 19, 2024 · Hartlepool, seaport and unitary authority, geographic and historic county of Durham, northeastern England, on the North Sea. The old town, occupying a limestone peninsula that sheltered a fishing harbour on the North Sea coast, enjoyed the patronage of the medieval prince-bishops of Durham, who.
