Borough of Darlington

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Borough of Darlington
Unitary authority borough
Darlington Town Hall
Coat of Arms
Darlington shown within County Durham and England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Constituent country	England
Region	North East England
City region	Tees Valley
Ceremonial county	County Durham
Admin. HQ	Darlington
Government
• Type	Darlington Borough Council
• Leadership:	Leader & Cabinet
• Executive:	Conservative
• Tees Valley Mayor	Ben Houchen
• MPs:	Paul Howell (C) Peter Gibson (C)
Area
• Total	76.3 sq mi (197.5 km2)
Area rank	160th
Population  (mid-2019 est.)
• Total	106,803
• Rank	Ranked 224th
• Density	1,400/sq mi (540/km2)
Time zone	UTC+0 (Greenwich Mean Time)
• Summer (DST)	UTC+1 (British Summer Time)
ONS code	00EH (ONS) E06000005 (GSS)
Ethnicity	93.7% White, 2.8% S.Asian, 3.5% other Non-White
Website	darlington.gov.uk

The Borough of Darlington is a unitary authority area in the lieutenancy area of County Durham and a part of the Tees Valley region, Northern England. The borough town is Darlington and, in 2011, had a resident population of 106,000.

It borders the unitary authority of County Durham to the north and west, Stockton-on-Tees to the east and North Yorkshire to the south, along the line of the River Tees.

Council[]

An alternative view of the town hall in 2006, the entrance is now to the right of this.

The current borough boundaries were formed on 1 April 1974, by the creation of a new non-metropolitan district of Darlington by the Local Government Act 1972, covering the previous county borough of Darlington along with nearly all of Darlington Rural District (the Newton Aycliffe parts of which went to Sedgefield). It remained part of County Durham for administrative purposes until reconstituted as a unitary authority on 1 April 1997. For ceremonial purposes it remains part of County Durham, with whom it continues to share certain local services, such as Fire and Rescue and Police. It is included within the Tees Valley area for both cultural and regional government administration.

It is made up of 20 council wards, sixteen within the town of Darlington itself, which are also covered by the Darlington parliamentary constituency and four rural wards of Heighington & Coniscliffe, Hurworth, Middleton St George and Sadberge & Whessoe (part of the Sedgefield parliamentary constituency.

As well as Darlington itself the borough includes the surrounding villages of:

• Archdeacon Newton
• Barmpton
• Beaumont Hill
• Bishopton
• Blackwell
• Brafferton
• Coatham Mundeville
• Denton
• Great Burdon
• Great Stainton
• Heighington
• High Coniscliffe
• Houghton
  • Houghton Bank
  • Houghton-le-Side
• Hurworth
  • Hurworth-on-Tees
  • Hurworth Place
  • Neasham
• Killerby
• Little Stainton
• Low Dinsdale
• Near airport
  • Middleton One Row
  • Middleton St George
  • Oak Tree
• Piercebridge
• Redworth
• Sadberge
• Summerhouse
• Walworth
  • Walworth
  • Walworth Gate

It is also home to Teesside International Airport (previously known as Durham Tees Valley Airport), of which the borough council shares joint ownership with the other four Tees Valley councils and Peel Holdings.

The council operates a Leader and Cabinet model of political leadership although a group of local residents aimed to force a referendum on moving to a system with directly-elected executive Mayor.^[1] Their bid was unsuccessful.

The political composition of the council, as of a , is Conservative 22;Labour 20; Liberal Democrats 3; Independent 3 and Green Party 2. Since then, one Labour councillor has declared he is now an Independent.

Economy[]

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Darlington at current basic prices published (pp. 240–253) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

^1 includes hunting and forestry

^2 includes energy and construction

^3 includes financial intermediation services indirectly measured

^4 Components may not sum to totals due to rounding

Freedom of the Borough[]

The following people and military units have received the Freedom of the Borough of Darlington.

This list is incomplete; you can help by . (August 2020)

Individuals[]

• John Williams MBE DL: 24 November 2011.
• Alasdair MacConachie OBE DL FRSA: 24 November 2011.

^[4]

Military Units[]

• The Light Infantry: 1996.
• The Rifles: 17 September 2010.^[5]

References[]

External links[]

• Darlington Borough Council
• Darlington Tourist Information
• Darlington Railway Centre & Museum
• Darlington Arts Centre & Civic Theatre

Video clips[]

• Darlington Borough Council YouTube channel

Coordinates: 54°31′00″N 1°33′00″W / 54.5167°N 1.5500°W / 54.5167; -1.5500