Hartlepool (/ˈhÉ'Ë tlɪpuË l/) is a port town and principal
settlement of the Borough of Hartlepool in County Durham, England. The
town lies on the North Sea coast, 17 miles (27 km) north of
Middlesbrough and 20 miles (32 km) south of Sunderland. The town is
governed as part of the Hartlepool Borough Council, a unitary
authority which also administers outlying villages such as Seaton
Carew, Greatham, Hart Village, Dalton Piercy and Elwick.Hartlepool was
founded in the 7th century, around the monastery of Hartlepool Abbey.
The village grew in the Middle Ages and its harbour served as the
official port of the County Palatine of Durham. After a railway link
from the north was established from the South Durham coal fields, an
additional link from the south, in 1835, together with a new port,
resulted in further expansion, with the new town of West Hartlepool.
England's Industrialisation and the start of a shipbuilding industry
in the later part of the 19th century caused Hartlepool to be 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. 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 place name derives from Old English heort ("hart"),
referring to stags seen, and pÅ l (pool), a pool of drinking water
which they were known to use. Records of the place-name from early
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