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Barnard Castle is a market community in Teesdale, Region Durham, England. It is called after the castle around which it was built. It is the major settlement in the Teesdale area, and also is a prominent vacationer destination. The Bowes Museum has the best collection of European fine as well as ornamental arts in the North of England, housed in an amazing 19th-century French-style estate. Its most well-known display is the 18th-century Silver Swan automaton, though art consists of job by Goya and El Greco. Barnard Castle rests 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. Close-by communities include Bishop Auckland to the north-east, Darlington to the eastern as well as Richmond in North Yorkshire to the south-east. Barnard Castle’s biggest solitary employer is GlaxoSmithKline which has a manufacturing facility on the outskirts of town. Barnard Castle is for all purposes (historic, ceremonial and also management) situated in Region Durham. The region border with the North Riding of Yorkshire was adjusted in 1967: that part of the community of Barnard Castle historically in Yorkshire was added to County Durham. Barnard Castle was the administrative centre of the former Teesdale district of County Durham till its abolition on 1 April 2009. The town is now provided by Durham County Council Unitary Authority, as principal authority and by Barnard Castle Town Council, as a church. The Community Council chooses a ritualistic Town Mayor yearly. It becomes part of the Bishop Auckland parliamentary constituency, which since 2017 is represented in parliament by Helen Goodman of Work, though with a small majority over the Conservatives. It remains 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.