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((short description|Town in County Durham, England))
((about|the town|the district|Borough of Hartlepool|the constituency|Hartlepool (UK Parliament constituency)))
((Use British English|date=September 2013))
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'''Hartlepool''' (((IPAc-en|ˈ|h|ɑː|t|l|ɪ|p|uː|l))) is a [[seaside resort|seaside]] and [[port town]] in [[County Durham]], England. It is governed by a [[unitary authority]] borough [[Borough of Hartlepool|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.<ref name="2021census">((cite web|url=https://www.ons.gov.uk/visualisations/dvc2257a/fig1/datadownload.xlsx|title=Figure 1: Explore population characteristics of individual BUAs|access-date=7 August 2021))</ref>

The [[old town]] was founded in the 7th century, around the monastery of [[Hartlepool Abbey]] on a [[Headland, Hartlepool|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 field]]s (to the west) and from Stockton-on-Tees (to the south) were created. The two towns merged and became known as the '''Hartlepools''' before dropping the "s".<ref>((cite web|url=http://visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/results.jsp?xCenter=3302709.40426&yCenter=3141023.18703&scale=63360&mapLayer=nineteenth&subLayer=first_edition&title=Ordnance+Survey+and+Ordnance+Survey+of+Scotland+First+Series|title=Old maps of Britain and Europe from A Vision of Britain Through Time|website=visionofbritain.org.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171225035017/http://visionofbritain.org.uk/maps/results.jsp?xCenter=3302709.40426&yCenter=3141023.18703&scale=63360&mapLayer=nineteenth&subLayer=first_edition&title=Ordnance+Survey+and+Ordnance+Survey+of+Scotland+First+Series|archive-date=25 December 2017))</ref>

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]].

==History==
The place name derives from [[Old English]] ''heort'' ("[[hart (animal)|hart]]"), referring to [[stag]]s seen, and ''pōl'' ([[stream pool|pool]]), a pool of drinking water which they were known to use.<ref name="LocHistHart">((Cite web|url=http://www.localhistories.org/hartlepool.html|title=A brief history of Hartlepool|first=Tim|last=Lambert|publisher=localhistories.org|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100615062502/http://localhistories.org/hartlepool.html|archive-date=15 June 2010|access-date=8 June 2010))</ref> Records of the place-name from early sources confirm this:
* 649: ''Heretu, or Hereteu''.
* 1017: ''Herterpol, or Hertelpolle''.
* 1182: ''Hierdepol''.

===Town on the heugh===
((see also|Headland, Hartlepool))
A [[Northumbria]]n settlement developed in the 7th century around [[Hartlepool Abbey|an abbey]] founded in 640 by [[Saint Aidan]] (an Irish and Christian priest) upon a headland overlooking a natural harbour and the North Sea. The monastery became powerful under [[St Hilda]], who served as its [[abbess]] from 649 to 657. The 8th-century [[Northumbria]]n chronicler [[Bede]] referred to the spot on which today's town is sited as "the place where deer come to drink", and in this period the Headland was named by the [[Angles (tribe)|Angles]] as ''Heruteu'' (''Stag Island''). Archaeological evidence has been found below the current high tide mark that indicates that an ancient post-[[Last Glacial Period|glacial]] forest by the sea existed in the area at the time.<ref>'England's North East' website, ((cite web|url=http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/Hartlepool.html|title=History of Hartlepool|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090815115125/http://www.englandsnortheast.co.uk/Hartlepool.html|archive-date=15 August 2009|access-date=2008-11-11))</ref>

The Abbey fell into decline in the early 8th century, and it was probably destroyed during a sea raid by [[Vikings]] on the settlement in the 9th century.<ref name="LocHistHart" /><ref name="HistUKHart">((Cite web|url=http://www.history.uk.com/history/hartlepool-brief-history/|title=Hartlepool – a brief history|publisher=History UK|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100923075209/http://www.history.uk.com/history/hartlepool-brief-history/|archive-date=23 September 2010|access-date=8 June 2010))</ref> In March 2000, the archaeological investigation television programme ''[[Time Team]]'' located the foundations of the lost monastery in the grounds of St Hilda's Church.<ref>[http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/archive/2000hart.html Channel 4 – ''Time Team''<!-- Bot generated title -->] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101104210714/http://www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/archive/2000hart.html|date=4 November 2010))</ref> In the early 11th century, the name had evolved into ''Herterpol''.

===Hartness===
((see also|Hart, County Durham|Billingham))
[[File:St. Hilda's Church, Hartlepool Headland.jpg|thumb|right|[[St Hilda's Church, Hartlepool|St. Hilda's Church]] on Hartlepool Headland, built by the Normans and for centuries known as the Jewel of Herterpol.]]
During the Norman Conquest, the De Brus family gained over-lordship of the land surrounding Hartlepool. [[William the Conqueror]] subsequently ordered the construction of [[Durham Castle]], and the villages under their rule were mentioned in records in 1153 when [[Robert de Brus, 1st Lord of Annandale]] became [[Lord of Hartness]]. The town's first charter was received before 1185, for which it gained its first mayor, an annual two-week fair and a weekly market.<ref name="LocHistHart" /><ref name="HistUKHart" /> The [[Norman Conquest]] affected the settlement's name to form the [[Middle English]] ''Hart-le-pool'' ("The Pool of the Stags").<ref>'This is Hartlepool', 'Where the name of Hartlepool came from' ((cite web|url=http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/hartlepoolname.asp|title=Where the name Hartlepool came from|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160529110337/http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/hartlepoolname.asp|archive-date=29 May 2016|access-date=2016-10-07))</ref>

By the [[Middle Ages]], Hartlepool was growing into an important (though still small) market town. One of the reasons for its escalating wealth was that its harbour was serving as the official port of the [[County Palatine of Durham]]. The main industry of the town at this time was fishing, and Hartlepool in this period established itself as one of the primary ports upon England's Eastern coast.

In 1306, [[Robert the Bruce]] was crowned [[King of Scotland]], and became the last Lord of Hartness. Angered, [[King Edward I]] confiscated the title to Hartlepool, and began to improve the town's military defences in expectation of war.<ref name="HistUKHart" /> In 1315, before they were completed, a Scottish army under [[James Douglas, Lord of Douglas|Sir James Douglas]] attacked, captured and looted the town.<ref name="LocHistHart" /><ref>[https://archive.org/stream/douglasbook01fras#page/439/mode/2up Fraser, W. ''Douglas Book'' vol i, p130] ((webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121111073505/http://www.archive.org/stream/douglasbook01fras|date=11 November 2012))</ref>

In the late 15th century, a pier was constructed to assist in the harbour's workload.<ref>((cite web | url=https://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/durham/vol3/pp263-285 | title=Parishes: Hartlepool &#124; British History Online ))</ref>

===Garrison===
[[File:Fish Sands and Sandwell Gate, Hartlepool Headland (geograph 1647257).jpg|thumb|The defensive walls around Old Hartlepool]]
Hartlepool was once again militarily occupied by a Scottish incursion, this time in alliance with the [[Parliamentary Army]] during the [[English Civil War]], which after 18 months was relieved by an English Parliamentarian garrison.<ref name="LocHistHart" />

In 1795, Hartlepool artillery emplacements and defences were constructed in the town as a defensive measure against the threat of French attack from seaborne Napoleonic forces. During the [[Crimean War]], two coastal batteries were constructed close together in the town to guard against the threat of seaborne attacks from the [[Imperial Russian Navy]]. They were entitled the ''Lighthouse Battery'' (1855) and the ''[[Heugh Battery]]'' (1859).<ref name="HistUKHart" />

Hartlepool in the 18th century became known as a town with medicinal springs, particularly the [[Chalybeate]] Spa near the Westgate. The poet [[Thomas Gray]] visited the town in July 1765 to "take the waters", and wrote to his friend William Mason:<ref>((Cite web |title=Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Letters : Letter ID letters.0461 |url=https://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=tgal0461 |access-date=2022-08-22 |website=www.thomasgray.org))</ref>
((cquote|I have been for two days to taste the water, and do assure you that nothing could be salter and bitterer and nastier and better for you... I am delighted with the place; there are the finest walks and rocks and caverns.
))
A few weeks later, he wrote in greater detail to James Brown:<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.thomasgray.org/cgi-bin/display.cgi?text=tgal0463|title = Thomas Gray Archive : Texts : Letters : Letter ID letters.0463))</ref>
((cquote|The rocks, the sea and the weather there more than made up to me the want of bread and the want of water, two capital defects, but of which I learned from the inhabitants not to be sensible. They live on the refuse of their own fish-market, with a few potatoes, and a reasonable quantity of Geneva [gin] six days in the week, and I have nowhere seen a taller, more robust or healthy race: every house full of ruddy broad-faced children. Nobody dies but of drowning or old-age: nobody poor but from drunkenness or mere laziness.
))

===Town by the strand===
((further|West Hartlepool))
By the early nineteenth century, Hartlepool was still a small town of around 900 people, with a declining port. In 1823, the council and [[Board of Trade]] decided that the town needed new industry, so the decision was made to propose a new railway to make Hartlepool a coal port, shipping out minerals from the Durham [[coalfield]]. It was in this endeavour that [[Isambard Kingdom Brunel]] visited the town in December 1831, and wrote: "A curiously isolated old fishing town – a remarkably fine race of men. Went to the top of the church tower for a view."

But the plan faced local competition from new docks. ((convert|25|km|mi)) to the north, the [[Marquis of Londonderry]] had approved the creation of the new [[Seaham Harbour]] (opened 31 July 1831), while to the south the [[Clarence Railway]] connected [[Stockton-on-Tees]] and [[Billingham]] to a new port at [[Port Clarence]] (opened 1833). Further south again, in 1831 the [[Stockton and Darlington Railway]] had extended into the new port of [[Middlesbrough]].

The council agreed the formation of the [[York, Newcastle and Berwick Railway#HD&RCo|Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company]] (HD&RCo) to extend the existing port by developing new docks, and link to both local collieries and the developing railway network in the south. In 1833, it was agreed that [[Christopher Tennant (businessman)|Christopher Tennant]] of [[Yarm]] establish the HD&RCo, having previously opened the Clarence Railway (CR). Tennant's plan was that the HD&RCo would fund the creation of a new railway, the [[Stockton and Hartlepool Railway]], which would take over the loss-making CR and extended it north to the new dock, thereby linking to the Durham coalfield.

After Tennant died, in 1839, the running of the HD&RCo was taken over by Stockton-on-Tees solicitor, [[Ralph Ward Jackson]]. But Jackson became frustrated at the planning restrictions placed on the old Hartlepool dock and surrounding area for access, so bought land which was mainly sand dunes to the south-west, and established [[West Hartlepool]]. Because Jackson was so successful at shipping coal from West Hartlepool through his [[Clarence Railway#West Hartlepool Harbour and Railway|West Hartlepool Dock and Railway Company]] and, as technology developed, ships grew in size and scale, the new town would eventually dwarf the old town.

The ((convert|8|acre|ha|adj=on|abbr=off)) West Hartlepool Harbour and Dock opened on 1 June 1847. On 1 June 1852, the ((convert|14|acre|ha|adj=on|abbr=off)) Jackson Dock opened on the same day that a railway opened connecting West Hartlepool to [[Leeds]], Manchester and [[Liverpool]]. This allowed the shipping of coal and wool products eastwards, and the shipping of fresh fish and raw fleeces westwards, enabling another growth spurt in the town. This in turn resulted in the opening of the Swainson Dock on 3 June 1856, named after Ward Jackson's father-in-law. In 1878, the William Gray & Co shipyard in West Hartlepool achieved the distinction of launching the largest tonnage of any shipyard in the world, a feat to be repeated on a number of occasions.<ref>Lionel Alexander Ritchie, 'Gray, Sir William (1823–1898)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/47529, accessed 2 May 2011]</ref> By 1881, old Hartlepool's population had grown from 993 to 12,361, but West Hartlepool had a population of 28,000.
[[File:Ward Jackson Park Pond - geograph.org.uk - 361499.jpg|thumb|Ward Jackson Park]]
Ward Jackson helped to plan the layout of West Hartlepool and was responsible for the first public buildings. He was also involved in the education and the welfare of the inhabitants. In the end, he was a victim of his own ambition to promote the town: accusations of shady financial dealings, and years of legal battles, left him in near-poverty. He spent the last few years of his life in London, far away from the town he had created.

===World Wars===
'''First'''
((further|Raid on Scarborough, Hartlepool and Whitby))
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[[File:Memorial to the first British soldier killed on British soil during the Great War - geograph.org.uk - 429905.jpg|thumb|In Hartlepool near [[Heugh Battery]], a plaque in [[Redheugh Gardens War Memorial]] "marks the place where the first ...(German shell) struck... (and) the first soldier was killed on British soil by enemy action in the Great War 1914–1918."]]
The area became heavily industrialised with an [[ironworks]] (established in 1838) and [[shipyard]]s in the docks (established in the 1870s). By 1913, no fewer than 43 ship-owning companies were located in the town, with the responsibility for 236 ships. This made it a key target for Germany in the [[First World War]]. One of the first German offensives against Britain was a raid and bombardment by the [[Imperial German Navy]] on the morning of 16 December 1914,<ref>((cite web|url=http://home.bt.com/news/bt-life/history-of-bt/how-the-german-bombardment-of-scarborough-and-hartlepool-affected-communications-on-december-16-1914-11364029161077|title=How the German bombardment of Scarborough and Hartlepool affected communications on December 16, 1914|date=16 December 2015|access-date=2 February 2019))</ref>

Hartlepool was hit with a total of 1150 shells, killing 117 people. Two coastal defence batteries at Hartlepool returned fire, launching 143 shells, and damaging three German ships: [[SMS Seydlitz|SMS ''Seydlitz'']], [[SMS Moltke|SMS ''Moltke'']] and [[SMS Blücher|SMS ''Blücher'']]. The Hartlepool engagement lasted roughly 50 minutes, and the coastal artillery defence was supported by the Royal Navy in the form of four destroyers, two light cruisers and a submarine, none of which had any significant impact on the German attackers.

Private Theophilus Jones of the 18th Battalion [[Durham Light Infantry]], who fell as a result of this bombardment, is sometimes described as the first military casualty on British soil by enemy fire.<ref>
((cite web|url=http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/durhamlightinf18btn-gw.php|title=18th Battalion, Durham Light Infantry|publisher=The Wartime Memories Project|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121015102245/http://www.wartimememoriesproject.com/greatwar/allied/durhamlightinf18btn-gw.php|archive-date=15 October 2012|access-date=28 June 2012))</ref> This event (the death of the first soldiers on British soil) is commemorated by the 1921 [[Redheugh Gardens War Memorial]] together with a plaque unveiled on the same day (seven years and one day after the East Coast Raid) at the spot on the Headland (the memorial by Philip Bennison<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-432718-war-memorial-in-redheugh-gardens-hartlep/photos|title=War Memorial in Redheugh Gardens, Headland, Hartlepool|last=Stuff|first=Good|website=britishlistedbuildings.co.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111124013302/http://www.britishlistedbuildings.co.uk/en-432718-war-memorial-in-redheugh-gardens-hartlep/photos|archive-date=24 November 2011))</ref> illustrates four soldiers on one of four [[cartouche]]s and the plaque, donated by a member of the public, refers to the 'first soldier' but gives no name). A living history group, the Hartlepool Military Heritage Memorial Society, portray men of that unit for educational and memorial purposes.

Hartlepudlians voluntarily subscribed more money per head to the war effort than any other town in Britain.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com/?p=The+Museum+of+Hartlepool&s=A+brief+history+of+Hartlepool|title=Hartlepool's Maritime Experience|last=Council|first=Hartlepool|website=hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110930151930/http://www.hartlepoolsmaritimeexperience.com/?p=The+Museum+of+Hartlepool&s=A+brief+history+of+Hartlepool|archive-date=30 September 2011))</ref>

'''Between'''

On 4 January 1922, a fire starting in a timber yard left 80 people homeless and caused over £1,000,000 of damage.<ref>((cite web |title=Timber Yard Fire 1922 |url=http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/timber-yard-fire-1922.asp |website=thisishartlepool.co.uk |access-date=23 February 2022))</ref><ref>((cite web |title=The Timber Yard Fire of 1922 |url=https://www.hhtandn.org/notes/1333/the-timber-yard-fire-of-1922 |website=hhtandn.org |access-date=23 February 2022))</ref> Hartlepool suffered badly in the [[Great Depression]] of the 1930s and endured high unemployment.

'''Second'''

Unemployment decreased during the [[Second World War]], with shipbuilding and steel-making industries enjoying a renaissance. Most of its output for the war effort were "[[Empire Ships]]". German bombers raided the town 43 times, though, compared to the previous war, civilian losses were lighter with 26 deaths recorded by Hartlepool Municipal Borough<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/4004006/HARTLEPOOL,%20MUNICIPAL%20BOROUGH|title=Cemetery Details &#124; CWGC|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101041006/http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/4004006/HARTLEPOOL,%20MUNICIPAL%20BOROUGH|archive-date=1 November 2016|access-date=2016-10-31)) CWGC Civilian Casualty record, Hartlepool Municipal Borough.</ref> and 49 by West Hartlepool Borough.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/4003996/WEST%20HARTLEPOOL,%20COUNTY%20BOROUGH|title=Cemetery Details &#124; CWGC|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161101101746/http://www.cwgc.org/find-a-cemetery/cemetery/4003996/WEST%20HARTLEPOOL,%20COUNTY%20BOROUGH|archive-date=1 November 2016|access-date=2016-10-31)) CWGC Civilian Casualty record, West Hartlepool County Borough.</ref> During the Second World War, [[RAF Greatham]] (also known as RAF West Hartlepool) was located on the South [[British Steel Corporation]] Works.

===The merge===
[[File:Hartlepool Borough Hall - geograph.org.uk - 1606381.jpg|right|thumb|[[Hartlepool Borough Hall]] on the heugh]]
In 1891, the two towns had a combined population of 64,000. By 1900, the two Hartlepools were, together, one of the three busiest ports in England.<ref name="Independent 1992-02-23">The Independent (London) 23 February 1992, Sunday Britain 1992 / The view from Wall Street ; British society is mired in class-consciousness, apathy and under-achievement. The future looks bleak. This is how Tony Horwitz of 'The Wall Street Journal' presented us to the world this month. It is an outsider's view, with a message that cuts across party politics p3</ref>

The modern town represents a joining of "Old Hartlepool", locally known as the "Headland", and [[West Hartlepool]]. As already mentioned, what was [[West Hartlepool]] became the larger town and both were formally unified in 1967. Today the term "West Hartlepool" is rarely heard outside the context of sport, but one of the town's [[Rugby Union]] teams still retains the name.

The name of the town's professional football club reflected both boroughs; when it was formed in 1908, following the success of West Hartlepool in winning the FA Amateur Cup in 1905, it was called "Hartlepools United" in the hope of attracting support from both towns. When the boroughs combined in 1967, the club renamed itself "Hartlepool" before re-renaming itself [[Hartlepool United]] in the 1970s. Many fans of the club still refer to the team as "Pools"

===Fall out===
[[File:Admiralty Chart No 1628 Hartlepool Bay, Published 1962.jpg|thumb|left|1962 chart of Hartlepool and the Bay, showing the infrastructure before the closure of the steel works and the filling-in of several of the docks]]
[[File:OSM Hartlepool.png|thumb|2021 Map of Hartlepool]]
After the war, industry went into a severe decline. ''Blanchland'', the last ship to be constructed in Hartlepool, left the slips in 1961. In 1967, Betty James wrote how "if I had the luck to live anywhere in the North East [of England]...I would live near Hartlepool. If I had the luck".<ref name="Northumberland p95">A kingdom by the sea : an exploration of Northumberland, Durham and the North Riding of Yorkshire James, Betty. p95</ref> There was a boost to the retail sector in 1970 when [[Middleton Grange Shopping Centre]] was opened by [[Anne, Princess Royal|Princess Anne]],<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/hotel-on-sale-to-test-the-market-1-4502108|title=Hotel on sale to 'test the market'|website=hartlepoolmail.co.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528012216/http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/hotel-on-sale-to-test-the-market-1-4502108|archive-date=28 May 2015))</ref> with over 130 new shops including [[Marks & Spencer]] and [[Woolworths Group plc|Woolworths]].

Before the shopping centre was opened, the old town centre was located around Lynn Street, but most of the shops and the market had moved to a new shopping centre by 1974. Most of Lynn Street had by then been demolished to make way for a new housing estate. Only the north end of the street remains, now called Lynn Street North. This is where the Hartlepool Borough Council depot was based (alongside the Focus DIY store) until it moved to the marina in August 2006.

In 1977, the [[British Steel Corporation]] announced the closure of its Hartlepool steelworks with the loss of 1500 jobs.<ref>The Times 13 December 1977 p23</ref> In the 1980s, the area was afflicted with extremely high levels of unemployment, at its peak consisting of 30 per cent of the town's working-age population, the highest in the United Kingdom.<ref name="The Times Saturday pg. 1">Hartlepool to lose 630 steel jobs (News) The Times Saturday, 15 January 1983; pg. 1; Issue 61431; col C</ref> 630 jobs at British Steel were lost in 1983, and a total of 10,000 jobs were lost from the town in the economic de-industrialization of England's former Northern manufacturing heartlands.<ref name="The Times Saturday pg. 1" /><ref>The Independent (London) 23 February 1992, Sunday Britain 1992 / The view from here: Hatchet job only half the story; Peter Mandelson, Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate for Hartlepool, defends the town's image</ref> Between 1983 and 1999, the town lacked a cinema and areas of it became afflicted with the societal hallmarks of endemic economic poverty: [[urban decay]], high crime levels, [[narcotics|drug]] and alcohol dependency being prevalent.<ref name="Independent 1992-02-23" />

===Rise and the future===
Docks near the centre were redeveloped and reopened by [[Queen Elizabeth II]] in 1993 as a marina<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/duke-edinburgh-hartlepool-lookback-visits-20354783.amp|title=Duke of Edinburgh in Hartlepool - a lookback at his visits to the town|date=9 April 2021 |access-date=8 July 2022))</ref> with the accompanying [[National Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool|National Museum of the Royal Navy]] opened in 1994, then known as the Hartlepool Historic Quay.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/retro/15-pictures-of-historic-quay-fun-1886266?amp|title=From belly dancing to royal visits: 15 pictures of Hartlepool's Historic Quay and HMS Trincomalee|date=23 February 2020 |access-date=8 July 2022))</ref>

A development corporation is under consultation until August 2022 to organise projects, with the [[Government spending in the United Kingdom|town's fund]] given to the town and other funds. Plans would be (if the corporation is formed) focused on the railway station, waterfront (including the Royal Navy Museum and a new leisure centre)<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/plans-multi-million-pound-leisure-24583884.amp|title=Plans for multi-million pound leisure centre look set to be approved|date=25 July 2022 |access-date=25 July 2022))</ref> and [[A178 road|Church Street]]. [[Northern School of Art]] also has funds for a TV and film studios.<ref>((cite web|url=https://planetradio.co.uk/tfm/local/news/ben-houchen-reveals-new-plan-to-transform-centre-of-hartlepool/|title=Ben Houchen reveals new plan to transform centre of Hartlepool|access-date=8 July 2022))</ref>

==Governance==
[[File:Hartlepool - Town Hall Theatre (geograph 4180057).jpg|thumb|[[West Hartlepool Town Hall]], now used as a theatre]]
Hartlepool was traditionally administered as a part of the [[County Palatine of Durham]] until 1850 when Old Hartlepool, i.e., the Headland was incorporated as a municipal borough with its headquarters, [[Hartlepool Borough Hall]], completed in 1866.<ref>((NHLE|desc= Borough Buildings and Borough Hall, Middlegate |num= 1263357|access-date=11 December 2021))</ref>

In 1887, [[West Hartlepool]] was also incorporated as a municipal borough, with its own headquarters, [[West Hartlepool Town Hall]], completed in 1897.<ref>((NHLE|desc=Town Hall, Hartlepool|num=1250394|access-date=4 February 2021))</ref> In 1902, West Hartlepool was incorporated as a county borough in its own right, remaining non-administratively in [[County Durham]]. The old Hartlepool Borough Council amalgamated with West Hartlepool Borough Council in 1967.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.theyworkforyou.com/debates/?id=1967-02-07a.1516.4 |title= Local Government Boundaries (Hartlepool) |date=7 February 1967|publisher=House of Commons Debates| access-date=11 December 2021))</ref>

In 1974, the newly merged council was re-organised into a borough of the county called [[Cleveland (county)|Cleveland]]. The 1996 [[Banham Review]], disbanded the new county and gave unitary authority status to its four districts, Hartlepool borough and part of Stockton-on-Tees borough became a part of non-administrative County Durham again under the [[Lieutenancies Act 1997]]. Since the 2010s, Hartlepool is also part of the [[Tees Valley]] region, a mayor for the region was elected in 2016.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/1997/23/schedule/1/data.htm|title=Lieutenancies Act 1997|website=legislation.gov.uk|access-date=2020-02-14))</ref>

===Council===
((See also|Hartlepool Borough Council))
After boundary changes introduced in 2019, the borough is now divided into 12 electoral wards, each of which elects three councillors who make up the 36 councillors of the borough council.

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align: center; width: 600px; margin:0.5em auto;"
|+The twelve wards of Hartlepool Borough Council
|-
| Burn Valley || De Brus || Fens & Greatham || Foggy Furze
|-
| Hart || Headland & Harbour ||Throston || Manor House
|-
| Rural West || Seaton || Victoria ||Rossmere
|}

===Members of Parliament===
((see also|Hartlepool (UK Parliament constituency)))

Hartlepool is represented in the [[British House of Commons|House of Commons]] by one Member of Parliament. The current MP for the [[Hartlepool (constituency)|Hartlepool constituency]] is [[Jill Mortimer]] of the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]. She was elected at the [[2021 Hartlepool by-election]] with 51.9% of the vote.

Members of parliament for Hartlepool since 1945 have been:
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((legend|((party color|Conservative Party (UK)))|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative Party]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA))
((legend|((party color|Labour Party (UK)))|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour Party]]|border=1px solid #AAAAAA))
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|}
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! colspan="2" style="" |Name
! Term of office
! Political party
! class=unsortable|Offices held
|-
! style="background-color: ((party color|Labour Party (UK)))" |
|[[David Thomas Jones]]
| 1945–1959
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|
|-
! style="background-color: ((party color|Conservative Party (UK)))" |
|[[John Simon Kerans]]
| 1959–1964
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|
|-
! style="background-color: ((party color|Labour Party (UK)))" |
|[[Edward Leadbitter]]
| 1964–1992
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|
|-
! style="background-color: ((party color|Labour Party (UK)))" |
|[[Peter Mandelson]]
| 1992–2004
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|[[Secretary of State for Northern Ireland]] (11 October 1999 – 24 January 2001),<br /> [[Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform|Secretary of State for Trade and Industry]] (27 July 1998 – 23 December 1998),<br /> [[Minister without portfolio (United Kingdom)|Minister without Portfolio]] (2 May 1997 – 27 July 1998)
|-
! style="background-color: ((party color|Labour Party (UK)))" |
|[[Iain Wright]]
| 2004–2017
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|[[Department for Children, Schools and Families|Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for 14–19 Reform and Apprenticeships]] (9 June 2009 – 11 May 2010)
|-
! style="background-color: ((party color|Labour Party (UK)))" |
|[[Mike Hill (British politician)|Mike Hill]]
| 2017–2021
|[[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]]
|
|-
! style="background-color: ((party color|Conservative Party (UK)))" |
|[[Jill Mortimer]]
| 2021–present
|[[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
|
|}

Mandelson, the MP between 1992 and 2004, resigned to take up a role in the [[European Commission]]. On 13 October 2008, he was created ''Baron Mandelson of [[Foy, Herefordshire|Foy]] and Hartlepool'' following his appointment as [[Secretary of State for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform]] in the British Government.

===Emergency services===

Hartlepool falls within the jurisdiction of [[Cleveland Fire Brigade]] and [[Cleveland Police]]. Before 1974, it was under the jurisdiction of the [[Durham Constabulary]] and [[Durham Fire Brigade]].<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-46261480/hartlepool-the-town-where-police-don-t-come-out Hartlepool: The town where ‘police don’t come out’] [[BBC]]</ref> Hartlepool  has two fire stations: a full-time station at [[Stranton]]<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.clevelandfire.gov.uk/your-area/hartlepool/stranton-fire-station/|title=Stranton Fire Station - Cleveland Fire Brigade|website=clevelandfire.gov.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160623115321/http://www.clevelandfire.gov.uk/your-area/hartlepool/stranton-fire-station/|archive-date=23 June 2016))</ref> and a retained station on the Headland.

==Geography==
===Distance to other places===
{| class="wikitable"
!Place!!Distance!!Direction!!Relation
|-
|[[Darlington]]||((Convert|18|miles|km))<ref>((cite web |title=Distance from Darlington to Hartlepool |url=https://www.distancecalculator.net/from-Hartlepool-to-Darlington |access-date=20 July 2022 |website=Distance Calculator))</ref>||South west||[[Tees Valley|Combined Authority area]]
|-
|[[Sunderland]]||((Convert|17|miles|km))<ref>((cite web |title=Distance from Sunderland to Hartlepool |url=https://www.distancecalculator.net/from-Sunderland-to-Hartlepool |access-date=20 July 2022 |website=Distance Calculator))</ref>||North||Largest settlement in the [[Historic counties of England|historic county]] of Durham
|-
|[[Durham, England|Durham]]||((Convert|16|miles|km))<ref>((cite web |title=Distance from Durham to Hartlepool |url=https://www.distancecalculator.net/from-Hartlepool-to-Durham-2 |access-date=20 July 2022 |website=Distance Calculator))</ref>||North||Historic [[county town]] and closest city
|-
|[[Stockton-on-Tees|Stockton]]||((Convert|9|miles|km))<ref>((cite web |title=Distance from Stockton-on-Tees to Hartlepool |url=https://www.distancecalculator.net/from-Stockton-on-Tees-to-Hartlepool |access-date=20 July 2022 |website=Distance Calculator))</ref>||South west||Combined Authority area
|-
|[[Middlesbrough]]||((Convert|8|miles|km))<ref>((cite web |title=Distance from Hartlepool to Middlesbrough |url=https://www.distancecalculator.net/from-Middlesbrough-to-Hartlepool |access-date=20 July 2022 |website=Distance Calculator))</ref>||South||Combined Authority area
|}
Nearby towns include: [[Seaham]] (((convert|17|mi|km|abbr=on|0|disp=or))), [[Sedgefield]] (((convert|13|mi|km|abbr=on|0|disp=or))), [[Billingham]] (((convert|8|mi|km|abbr=on|0|disp=or))) and [[Peterlee]] (((convert|8|mi|km|abbr=on|0|disp=or))). Beyond the far side of the [[Tees Bay]], on the other side of the [[River Tees]], the distant monument on [[Eston Nab]] can be seen on clear days.

==Economy==
Hartlepool's economy has historically been linked with the maritime industry, something which is still at the heart of local business. Hartlepool Dock is owned and run by [[PD Ports]].<ref name="investinhartlepool.com">((cite web|url=http://www.investinhartlepool.com/pdfs/Hartlepool%20Economic%20Assessment%20-%20Draft%203.pdf|title=HartlepoolEconomic Assessment 2020/11 |publisher=Economic Development Division, Hartlepool Borough Council |url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130927013119/http://www.investinhartlepool.com/pdfs/Hartlepool%20Economic%20Assessment%20-%20Draft%203.pdf|archive-date=27 September 2013|access-date=2011-05-29))</ref> Engineering related jobs employ around 1700 people.<ref name="investinhartlepool.com" /> [[Tata Steel Europe]] employ around 350 people in the manufacture of steel tubes, predominantly for the oil industry.<ref name="investinhartlepool.com" /> South of the town on the banks of the Tees, [[Able UK]] operates the [[Teesside Environmental Reclamation and Recycling Centre]] (TERRC), a large scale marine recycling facility and dry dock. Adjacent to the east of TERRC is the [[Hartlepool nuclear power station]], an [[advanced gas-cooled reactor]] (AGR) type nuclear power plant opened in the 1980s. It is the single largest employer in the town, employing 1 per cent of the town's working age people.<ref name="investinhartlepool.com" />

The chemicals industry is important to the local economy. Companies include [[Huntsman Corporation]], who produce [[titanium dioxide]] for use in paints, [[Omya]], [[Baker Hughes]] and [[Frutarom]].<ref name="investinhartlepool.com" />

Tourism was worth £48 million to the town in 2009; this figure excludes the impact of the Tall Ships 2010.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/tourism_worth_48m_a_year_to_town_economy_1_3414911|title=Tourism worth £48M a year to town economy|website=hartlepoolmail.co.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110529053527/http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/tourism_worth_48m_a_year_to_town_economy_1_3414911|archive-date=29 May 2011))</ref> Hartlepool's historic links to the maritime industry are centred on the [[Hartlepool's Maritime Experience|Maritime Experience]], and the supporting exhibits [[PS Wingfield Castle|PS ''Wingfield Castle'']] and [[HMS Trincomalee|HMS ''Trincomalee'']].

[[Camerons Brewery]] was founded in 1852 and currently employs around 145 people.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news//tm_headline=camerons-brewery-clinches-new-five-year-deal&method=full&objectid=27106762&siteid=51140-name_page.html|title=Camerons brewery clinches new five-year deal|last=Administrator|first=journallive|date=21 August 2010|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110807121110/http://www.nebusiness.co.uk/business-news/latest-business-news//tm_headline%3Dcamerons-brewery-clinches-new-five-year-deal%26method%3Dfull%26objectid%3D27106762%26siteid%3D51140-name_page.html|archive-date=7 August 2011))</ref> It is one of the largest breweries in the UK. Following a series of take-overs, it came under the control of the [[Castle Eden Brewery]] in 2001 who merged the two breweries, closing down the [[Castle Eden]] plant.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/brewery/408|title=Camerons Brewery Company|publisher=quaffale.org.uk|access-date=25 May 2010))</ref> It brews a range of [[cask ale|cask]] and bottled beers, including ''Strongarm'', a 4% [[abv]] [[Bitter (beer)|bitter]]. The brewery is heavily engaged in contract brewing such beers as [[Kronenbourg 1664]], [[John Smith's]] and [[Foster's Lager|Foster's]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/high_hopes_of_contract_brewing_1_1031544|title=High hopes of contract brewing|website=hartlepoolmail.co.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110210102701/http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/high_hopes_of_contract_brewing_1_1031544|archive-date=10 February 2011))</ref>

Orchid Drinks of Hartlepool were formed in 1992 after a management buy out of the soft drinks arm of Camerons.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.just-drinks.com/news/britvic-closes-orchid-drinks-deal-worth-67m_id76003.aspx|title=UK: Britvic closes Orchid Drinks deal worth £67m|date=11 July 2000|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722132631/http://www.just-drinks.com/news/britvic-closes-orchid-drinks-deal-worth-67m_id76003.aspx|archive-date=22 July 2011))</ref> They manufactured [[Purdey's]] and [[Amé]]. Following a £67 million takeover by [[Britvic]], the site was closed down in 2009.

[[Middleton Grange Shopping Centre]] is the main shopping location. 2800 people are employed in retail.<ref name="investinhartlepool.com" /> The ten major retail companies in the town are [[Tesco]], [[Morrisons]], [[Asda]], [[Next (clothing)|Next]], [[Argos (retailer)|Argos]], [[Marks & Spencer]], [[Aldi]], [[Boots UK|Boots]] and [[Matalan]].<ref name="investinhartlepool.com" /> Aside from the local sports clubs, other local entertainment venues include a [[Vue (cinema)|VUE Cinema]] and [[The Rank Group#Mecca Bingo|Mecca Bingo]].

Companies that have moved operations to the town for the [[offshore wind farm]] include [[Siemens]] and [[Van Oord]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/jobs-boost-for-marina-1-4606952|title=Jobs boost for marina|website=hartlepoolmail.co.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120605054850/http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/jobs-boost-for-marina-1-4606952|archive-date=5 June 2012))</ref>

==Culture and community==

=== Festivals and Fairs ===
Since November 2014 the Headland has hosted the annual Wintertide Festival, which is a weekend long event that starts with a community parade on the Friday and culminating in a finale performance and fireworks display on the Sunday.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/people/wintertide-festival-returning-hartlepool-2019-organisers-promising-most-spectacular-event-yet-1006832|title=Wintertide Festival returning to Hartlepool for 2019 - featuring lantern parade, fireworks and Christmas market|website=hartlepoolmail.co.uk|date=15 November 2019 |language=en|access-date=2020-02-07))</ref>

====Tall Ships' Races====
On 28 June 2006 Hartlepool celebrated after winning its bid to host [[The Tall Ships' Races]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=233|title=Hartlepool Borough Council news|last=Council|first=Hartlepool Borough|website=hartlepool.gov.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060927155638/http://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/site/scripts/news_article.php?newsID=233|archive-date=27 September 2006))</ref> The town welcomed up to 125 [[tall ship]]s in 2010, after being chosen by race organiser Sail Training International to be the finishing point for the race. Hartlepool greeted the ships, which sailed from [[Kristiansand]] in Norway on the second and final leg of the race. Hartlepool also hosted the race in July 2023.

=== Museums, art galleries and libraries ===
[[File:Hartlepool (32693654063).jpg|thumb|[[Hartlepool Art Gallery]] and visitor centre, deconsecrated building also known as Christ Church built from materials excavated to build new docks built during the industrial revolution, and intended to satisfy the spiritual needs of the new workforce.]]
[[Hartlepool Art Gallery]] is located in Church Square within Christ Church, a restored [[Victorian architecture|Victorian]] church, built in 1854 and designed by the architect [[Edward Buckton Lamb]] (1806–1869). The gallery's temporary exhibitions change frequently and feature works from local artists and the permanent Fine Art Collection, which was established by Sir William Gray.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/visit/venues/hartlepool-art-gallery-3635|title=Hartlepool Art Gallery |website=Art UK |language=en|access-date=2020-02-21))</ref> The gallery also houses the Hartlepool [[tourist information centre]].
[[File:Hartlepool - The Heugh Lighthouse (geograph 7379083).jpg|thumb|The [[Heugh Battery]] Museum]]
[[Heugh Battery|The Heugh Battery]] Museum is located on [[the Headland]]. It was one of three batteries erected to protect Hartlepool's port in 1860. The battery was closed in 1956 and is now in the care of the Heugh Gun Battery Trust and home to an [[artillery]] collection.
[[File: Hartlepool_Historic_Quay_-_panoramio.jpg|thumb|[[National Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool|NMRN Hartlepool]]]]
Hartlepool is home to a [[National Museum of the Royal Navy]] (more specifically the [[National Museum of the Royal Navy, Hartlepool|NMRN Hartlepool]]). Previously known simply as The Historic Quay and Hartlepool's Maritime Experience, the museum is a re-creation of an 18th-century seaport with the exhibition centre-piece being a sailing frigate, ''[[HMS Trincomalee]]''. The complex also includes the [[Museum of Hartlepool]].

Willows was the Hartlepool mansion of the influential Sir William Gray of [[William Gray & Company]] and he gifted it to the town in 1920, after which it was converted to be the town's first museum and art gallery.<ref>((Cite web|url=http://www.hhtandn.org/relatedimages/5793/sir-william-gray-house-willows|title=Hartlepool History Then & Now|website=hhtandn.org|access-date=2020-02-18))</ref> Fondly known locally as "The Gray" it was closed as a museum in 1994 and now houses the local authority's culture department.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/visit/venues/sir-william-gray-house-3636|title=Sir William Gray House |website=Art UK |language=en|access-date=2020-02-18))</ref>

There are six [[Library|libraries]] in Hartlepool, the primary one being the Community Hub Central Library. Others are Throston Grange Library, Community Hub North Library, Seaton Carew Library, Owton Manor Library and Headland Branch Library.<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/directory/9/library_locations_and_opening_times/category/100|title=Hartlepool Borough Council - Libraries in Hartlepool|last=Council|first=Hartlepool Borough|website=hartlepool.gov.uk|language=en|access-date=2020-02-21))</ref>

==Transport==
===Road===
Hartlepool is served by two major roads which are the [[A179 road]] and the [[A689 road]], both linking the town to the [[A19 road]]. The [[A179 road]] is the main road to the north-west which leads to the [[A19 road]], [[Durham, England|Durham]], [[Sunderland]] and [[Tyneside]]. The [[A689 road]] is the main road to the south-west towards the A19 & [[Billingham]], [[Stockton-on-Tees|Stockton]], [[Middlesbrough]] and [[York]]. The [[A178 road]] leads south to [[Seaton Carew]], [[Graythorp]], [[Seal Sands]], [[Port Clarence]] and [[Middlesbrough]] via the [[Transporter bridge]]. The [[A1086 road]] leads north to [[Crimdon]], [[Blackhall Rocks|Blackhall]], [[Horden]], [[Peterlee]] and [[Easington, County Durham|Easington]].

===Rail===
[[File:Hartlepool Station (geograph 6003335).jpg|thumb|((rws|Hartlepool)) station]]
Hartlepool is served by ((rws|Hartlepool)) and ((rws|Seaton Carew)) railway stations, both of which lie on the [[Durham Coast Line]] with hourly services to ((rws|Sunderland)), ((rws|Newcastle)) and ((rws|Middlesbrough)), which are operated by [[Northern (train operating company)|Northern]]. A service to ((rws|London King's Cross)) from Sunderland, operated by [[Grand Central (train operating company)|Grand Central]] that uses [[British Rail Class 180|Class 180]] trains capable of ((convert|125|mph|km/h|-1|abbr=on)) operates from the former of the two stations. The service marks the first time since the 1980s<ref>((cite news|url=http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/local/all-news/all-aboard-for-london-rail-link-video-1-1142001|title=All aboard for London rail link – VIDEO|date=5 December 2007|access-date=28 June 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131102132855/http://www.sunderlandecho.com/news/local/all-news/all-aboard-for-london-rail-link-video-1-1142001|archive-date=2 November 2013|publisher=Sunderland Echo))</ref> that Hartlepool has had a direct rail link with London which takes around three and a half hours.<ref>
((cite news|url=http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/direct_rail_link_to_london_planned_1_1005967|title=Direct rail link to London planned|date=17 January 2005|access-date=28 June 2012|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130728184111/http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/direct_rail_link_to_london_planned_1_1005967|archive-date=28 July 2013|work=Hartlepool Mail))</ref>

===Bus===
Local bus services are provided around the town mainly by [[Stagecoach North East]]. The operator has the service 36 from Hartlepool to [[Billingham]], [[Stockton-on-Tees|Stockton]] and [[Middlesbrough]], as well as the faster service 1 to [[Middlesbrough]] via [[Seaton Carew]] and Port Clarence.

Other services are provided by [[Arriva North East]] from Hartlepool to [[Peterlee]], [[Durham, England|Durham]], [[Seaham]],and [[Sunderland]].

===Sea===
[[File:Hartlepool Docks - geograph.org.uk - 136642.jpg|thumb|right|Offshore supply vessels in Hartlepool docks]]
Hartlepool has been a major seaport virtually since it was founded, and has a long fishing heritage. During the industrial revolution massive new docks were created on the southern side of the channel running below the Headland, which gave rise to the town of [[West Hartlepool]].

Now owned by [[PD Ports]], the docks are still in use today and still capable of handling large vessels. However, a large portion of the former dockland was converted into a marina capable of berthing 500 vessels. Hartlepool Marina is home to a wide variety of pleasure and working craft, with passage to and from the sea through a lock.<ref>((cite news | url=https://hartlepool-marina.com/locking-procedure/ | title=Locking Procedure - Hartlepool Marina | newspaper=Hartlepool Marina ))</ref>

Hartlepool also has a permanent [[Royal National Lifeboat Institution|RNLI]] [[lifeboat (rescue)|lifeboat]] station.

==Education==
((see also|List of schools in Hartlepool))

===Secondary===
Hartlepool has five secondary schools:<ref name=":0">((cite web|url=http://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=543&pageNumber=4|title=Secondary Schools – Hartlepool Borough Council<!-- Bot generated title -->|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070518183807/http://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=543&pageNumber=4|archive-date=18 May 2007))</ref>
*[[Dyke House Academy]]
*[[English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College]]
*[[High Tunstall College of Science]]
*[[Manor Community Academy]]
*[[St Hild's Church of England School]]
The town had planned to receive funding from central government to improve school buildings and facilities as a part of the [[Building Schools for the Future]] programme, but this was cancelled because of [[Cameron–Clegg coalition#Public spending cuts|government spending cuts]].<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=616&pageNumber=2|title=BSF News – Hartlepool Borough Council<!-- Bot generated title -->|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716084642/http://www.hartlepool.gov.uk/site/scripts/documents_info.php?documentID=616&pageNumber=2|archive-date=16 July 2011))</ref>

===College===
[[Hartlepool College of Further Education]] is an educational establishment located in the centre of the town, and existed in various forms for over a century. Its former 1960s campus was replaced by a £52million custom-designed building, it was approved in principle in July 2008, opened in September 2011.<ref>((cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tees/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8997000/8997794.stm|title=Hartlepool's new £52m College of Further Education|publisher=BBC News|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130928084754/http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/tees/hi/people_and_places/newsid_8997000/8997794.stm|archive-date=28 September 2013))</ref>

Hartlepool also has [[Hartlepool Sixth Form College]]. It was a former grammar and comprehensive school, the college provides a number of AS and A2 Level student courses. The [[English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College]] also offers AS, A2 and other BTEC qualification to 16- to 18-year-olds from Hartlepool and beyond.

A campus of [[The Northern School of Art]] is a specialist [[art and design college]] and [[higher education]], located adjacent to the art gallery on Church Square. The college has a further site in Middlesbrough that facilitates [[further education]].

==Territorial Army==
Situated in the New Armoury Centre, Easington Road are the following units.
*[[Royal Marines Reserve]]
*[[34 (Northern) Signal Regiment|90 (North Riding) Signal Squadron]]

==Religion==
((Further|List of churches in Hartlepool))
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They are multiple Church of England and Roman Catholic Churches in the town. St Hilda's Church is a notable church of the town, it was built on [[Hartlepool Abbey]] and sits upon a high point of the Headland. The churches of the Church of England's St Paul and Roman Catholic's St Joseph are next to each other on St Paul's Road.
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|[[Church of England]]||Deanery of Hartlepool<br/>[[Archdeaconry of Auckland]]<br/>[[Diocese of Durham]]<br/>[[Province of York]]<ref name="CoE">((cite web|url= https://durhamdiocese.org/acny |title= Find A Church |access-date=21 April 2023))</ref>
|[[Hartlepool Art Gallery|Christ Church]] (deconsecrated)<br/>Holy Trinity<br/>St Aidan<br/>St Columba<br/>[[St Hilda's Church, Hartlepool|St Hilda]]<br/>St Luke<br/>St Oswald<br/>[[St Paul's Church, Hartlepool|St Paul]]
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|[[Roman Catholic]]|| Holy Family parish<br/>Hilda partnership<br/>[[Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle]]<br/>[[Archdiocese of Liverpool]]<ref>((cite web|url= https://diocesehn.org.uk/parishes-partnerships/ |access-date=21 April 2023|title=Parishes & Partnerships))</ref>
|St Cuthbert<br/>St John Vianney<br/>[[St Joseph's Church, Hartlepool|St Joseph]]<br/>St Patrick<br/>St Thomas More<br/>[[St Mary's Church, Hartlepool|St Mary]]
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==Sport==
===Football===
[[File:Hartlepool United Football Club - geograph.org.uk - 3243112.jpg|thumb|[[Victoria Park, Hartlepool|Victoria Park]]]]
[[Hartlepool United]] is the town's professional football club and they play at [[Victoria Park, Hartlepool|Victoria Park]]. The club's most notable moment was in 2005 when, with 8 minutes left in the [[2005 Football League One play-off final]], the team conceded a penalty, allowing [[Sheffield Wednesday]] to equalise and eventually beat Hartlepool to a place in the [[Championship]]. The club currently play in the [[National League (division)|National League]].

Supporters of the club bear the nickname of [[Monkey Hangers]]. This is based upon a legend that during the Napoleonic wars a monkey, which had been a ship's mascot, was taken for a French spy and hanged. Hartlepool has also produced football presenter [[Jeff Stelling]], who has a renowned partnership with [[Chris Kamara]] who was born in nearby [[Middlesbrough]]. [[Jeff Stelling]] is a keen supporter of Hartlepool and often refers to them when presenting [[Sky Sports News]]. It is also the birthplace and childhood home of [[Pete Donaldson]], one of the co-hosts of the Football Ramble [[podcast]] as well as co-host of the [[Abroad in Japan]] podcast, and a prominent radio DJ.

The town also has a semi-professional football club called [[FC Hartlepool]] who play in [[Northern Football League|Northern League]] Division Two.<ref>((cite web |url=https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/sport/football/fc-hartlepool-in-bid-to-claim-towns-first-northern-league-spot-in-decades-4107013 |title=FC Hartlepool in bid to claim town's first Northern League spot in decades |publisher=Hartlepool Mail |date=20 April 2023 |accessdate=17 July 2023))</ref>

===Rugby union===

Hartlepool is something of an anomaly in England having historically maintained a disproportionate number of clubs in a town of only c.90,000 inhabitants.  These include(d) [[West Hartlepool R.F.C.|West Hartlepool]], [[Hartlepool Rovers]], Hartlepool Athletic RFC, Hartlepool Boys Brigade Old Boys RFC (BBOB), Seaton Carew RUFC (formerly Hartlepool Grammar School Old Boys), West Hartlepool Technical Day School Old Boys RUFC (TDSOB or Tech) and Hartlepool Old Boys' RFC (Hartlepool). Starting in 1904 clubs within ((convert|8|mi|km|0|abbr=off|spell=on)) of the headland were eligible to compete for the Pyman Cup which has been contested regularly since and that the Hartlepool & District Union continue to organise.<ref>((Cite web |url=http://www.hhtandn.org/venues/4136/pyman-cup-and-league-and-lormor-cup-competitions |title=Pyman Cup and Lormor Cup Competitions |website=Hartlepool History Then and Now))</ref>

Perhaps the best known club outside the town is [[West Hartlepool R.F.C.]] who in 1992 achieved promotion to what is now the [[Premiership Rugby|Premiership]] competing in 1992–93, 1994–95, 1995–96 and 1996–97 seasons. This success came at a price as soon after West was then hit by bankruptcy and controversially sold their Brierton Lane stadium and pitch to former sponsor Yuills Homes. There then followed a succession of relegations before the club stabilised in the Durham/Northumberland leagues. West and Rovers continue to play one another in a popular Boxing Day fixture which traditionally draws a large crowd.

[[Hartlepool Rovers]], formed in 1879, who played at the Old Friarage in the Headland area of Hartlepool before moving to West View Road. In the 1890s Rovers supplied numerous county, divisional and international players. The club itself hosted many high-profile matches including the inaugural [[Barbarians F.C.]] match in 1890, the [[Māori All Blacks|New Zealand Maoris]] in 1888 and the legendary [[All Blacks]] who played against a combined Hartlepool Club team in 1905. In the 1911–12 season, Hartlepool Rovers broke the world record for the number of points scored in a season racking up 860 points including 122 tries, 87 conversions, five penalties and eleven drop goals.

Although they ceased competing in the RFU leagues in 2008–09, West Hartlepool TDSOB (Tech) continues to support town and County rugby with several of the town's other clubs having played at Grayfields when their own pitches were unavailable. Grayfields has also hosted a number of Durham County cup finals as well as County Under 16, Under 18 and Under 20 age group games.

===Olympics===

====Boxing====
At the [[2012 Summer Olympics]], 21-year-old [[Savannah Marshall]], who attended [[English Martyrs School and Sixth Form College]] in the town of Hartlepool, competed in the Women's boxing tournament of the 2012 Olympic Games. She was defeated 12–6 by [[Marina Volnova]] of [[Kazakhstan]] in her opening, quarter-final bout. [[Savannah Marshall]] is now a professional boxer, currently unbeaten as a pro and on 31 October 2020 in her 9th professional fight Marshall became the WBO female middleweight champion with a TKO victory over opponent [[Hannah Rankin]] at [[Wembley Arena]].((citation needed|date=May 2021))

====Swimming====
In August 2012 [[Jemma Lowe]], a British record holder who attended [[High Tunstall College of Science]] in the town of Hartlepool, competed in the 2012 Olympic Games. She finished sixth in the 200-metre butterfly final with a time of 58.06 seconds. She was also a member of the eighth-place British team in the [[400m]] [[Medley swimming|Medley relay]].

==Monkeys==
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Hartlepool is known for allegedly executing a monkey during the Napoleonic Wars.<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/release.php?id=1649|title=Media Releases - University of Aberdeen|author=University of Aberdeen Web Team|website=abdn.ac.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121012162036/http://www.abdn.ac.uk/mediareleases/release.php?id=1649|archive-date=12 October 2012))</ref> According to legend, fishermen from Hartlepool watched a French warship founder off the coast, and the only survivor was a monkey, which was dressed in French military uniform, presumably to amuse the officers on the ship. The fishermen assumed that this must be what Frenchmen looked like and, after a brief trial, summarily executed the monkey.

Historians have pointed to the prior existence of a Scottish [[folk song]] called "And the Boddamers hung the Monkey-O". It describes how a monkey survived a shipwreck off the village of [[Boddam, Aberdeenshire|Boddam]] near [[Peterhead]] in [[Aberdeenshire (traditional)|Aberdeenshire]]. Because the villagers could only claim salvage rights if there were no survivors from the wreck, they allegedly hanged the monkey. There is also an English folk song detailing the later event called, appropriately enough, "The Hartlepool Monkey". In the English version the monkey is hanged as a French spy.

"[[Monkey hanger]]" and Chimp Choker are common terms of (semi-friendly) abuse aimed at "Poolies", often from footballing rivals [[Darlington]]. The mascot of [[Hartlepool United F.C.]] is ''[[H'Angus]] the monkey''. The man in the monkey costume, [[Stuart Drummond]], stood for the post of mayor in 2002 as H'angus the monkey, and campaigned on a platform which included free bananas for schoolchildren. To widespread surprise, he won, becoming the first [[Elected mayors in the United Kingdom|directly elected mayor]] of Hartlepool, winning 7,400 votes with a 52% share of the vote and a turnout of 30%. He was re-elected by a landslide in 2005, winning 16,912 on a turnout of 51% – 10,000 votes more than his nearest rival, the Labour Party candidate.

The monkey legend is also linked with two of the town's sports clubs, [[Hartlepool Rovers]] RFC, which uses the hanging monkey as the club logo. Hartlepool (Old Boys) RFC use a hanging monkey kicking a rugby ball as their tie crest.

==Notable residents==
((For|a complete list|:Category:People from the Borough of Hartlepool))

* [[Michael Brown (footballer, born 1977)|Michael Brown]], former [[Premier League]] footballer<ref>((cite web |title=FootballSquads - Port Vale - 2017/2018 |url=http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/eng/2017-2018/fltwo/portv.htm |website=footballsquads.co.uk |access-date=1 February 2021))</ref>
* [[Edward Clarke (artist)|Edward Clarke]], artist <ref>((Cite web |title=Clarke, Edward, b.1962 |website=Art UK |url=https://artuk.org/discover/artists/clarke-edward-b-1962 |access-date=2022-08-16 |language=en))</ref>
* [[Brian Clough]], football manager who lived in the Fens estate in town while manager of [[Hartlepool United F.C.|Hartlepools United]]<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/14647577.brian-clough-started-football-revolution-1966/|title=How Brian Clough started a football revolution in 1966 |website=northernecho.co.uk))</ref>
* [[John Darwin disappearance case|John Darwin]], convicted fraudster who faked his own death<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2021-03-05/itv-drama-to-tell-story-of-back-from-the-dead-seaton-carew-canoeist-john-darwin|title=ITV drama to tell story of 'back from the dead' Seaton Carew canoeist John Darwin |website=itv.com|date=5 March 2021 ))</ref>
* [[Pete Donaldson]], London radio DJ and podcast host<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/hartlepool-born-absolute-radio-presenter-s-charity-mission-to-help-farmers-in-remote-african-village-1-9478432|title=Hartlepool-born Absolute Radio presenter's charity mission to help farmers in remote African village|website=hartlepoolmail.co.uk|date=5 December 2018 ))</ref>
* [[Janick Gers]], guitarist from British heavy metal band [[Iron Maiden]]<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/people/made-in-hartlepool-23-famous-people-with-town-connections-1373544?page=1|title=Made in Hartlepool: 23 famous people who were born, lived or studied here|website=hartlepoolmail.co.uk|date=24 December 2021 ))</ref>
* [[Courtney Hadwin]], singer<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/americas-talent-courtney-hadwin-hartlepool-14777680|title=America's Got Talent: Courtney Hadwin from Hartlepool gets Golden Buzzer for this amazing performance |website=gazettelive.co.uk|date=13 June 2018 ))</ref>
* [[Jack Howe (footballer, born 1915)|Jack Howe]], former [[England national football team|England]] international footballer<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.englandfootballonline.com/TeamPlyrsBios/PlayersH/BioHoweJR.html|title=England Players - Jack Howe |website=englandfootballonline.com))</ref>
* [[Liam Howe]], music producer and songwriter for several artists and member of the band [[Sneaker Pimps]]<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1866432/|title=Liam Howe |publisher=IMDb))</ref>
* [[Saxon Huxley]], [[WWE NXT UK]] wrestler<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/teesside-wrestler-who-bodyslammed-opponent-12458468.amp|title=Teesside Wrestler who bodyslammed opponent|website= gazettelive.co.uk|date=15 January 2017))</ref>
* [[Andy Linighan]], former [[Arsenal F.C.|Arsenal]] footballer who scored the winning goal in the [[1993 FA Cup Final]]<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/people/made-in-hartlepool-23-famous-people-with-town-connections-1373544?page=3|title=Made in Hartlepool: 23 famous people who were born, lived or studied here|website=hartlepoolmail.co.uk|date=24 December 2021 ))</ref>
* [[Savannah Marshall]], professional boxer<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/sport/9729786.shy-savannahs-rise-to-the-olympics/|title=Shy Savannah's rise to the Olympics|website=The Northern Echo))</ref>
* [[Stephanie Aird]], comedian and television personality<ref name="Durham City Afc Sign Sue Sweeney As Their Latest Celebrity Citizen">((cite web |date=20 September 2021 |title='Maid' for success? Here's how Hartlepool internet sensation Stephanie Aird scored on BBC2's walking show Take A Hike |url=https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/people/maid-for-success-heres-how-hartlepool-internet-sensation-stephanie-aird-scored-on-bbc2s-walking-show-take-a-hike-3390138 |accessdate=20 September 2021 |work=[[Hartlepool Mail]]))</ref>
* [[Jim Parker (composer)|Jim Parker]], composer<ref>((Cite web|url=https://www.rpo.co.uk/promoters-area/439-composer-spotlight-jim-parker|title=Composer Spotlight: Jim Parker|website=Royal Philharmonic Orchestra|accessdate=4 August 2023))</ref>
* [[Guy Pearce]], film actor who lived in the town when he was younger as his mother was from the town<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.itv.com/news/tyne-tees/2022-07-29/everybody-needs-famous-neighbours-guy-pearces-links-to-hartlepool|title=Was Guy Pearce a good neighbour? Ramsay Street and Hollywood legend's links to Hartlepool|website=Tyne Tees|date=29 July 2022 ))</ref><ref>((cite web|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/20586086.teesside-roots-guy-pearce-returns-neighbours-finale-show/|title=Teesside roots: Guy Pearce returns to Neighbours for finale show|website=Northern Echo))</ref>
* [[Narbi Price]], artist<ref>((cite web|url= https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/busy-year-ahead-hartlepool-artist-15990027.amp|title=Busy Year Ahead for Hartlepool Artist|website=The Chronicle|date=16 March 2019))</ref>
* [[Jack Rowell]], coached the [[England national rugby union team|England]] international rugby team and led them to the semi-final of the [[1995 Rugby World Cup]]<ref name="hartlepoolmail.co.uk">((cite web|url=https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/people/made-in-hartlepool-23-famous-people-with-town-connections-1373544?page=5|title=Made in Hartlepool: 23 famous people who were born, lived or studied here|website=hartlepoolmail.co.uk|date=24 December 2021 ))</ref>
* [[Wayne Sleep]], dancer and actor who spent his childhood in the town.<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/4137145.wayne-sleep-returns-north-east-roots|title=Wayne Sleep Returns to his North East Roots|website=thenorthernecho.co.uk))</ref>
* [[Reg Smythe]], cartoonist who created [[Andy Capp]]<ref name="hartlepoolmail.co.uk"/>
* [[Jeremy Spencer]], guitarist who was in the original [[Fleetwood Mac]] line-up<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/people/made-in-hartlepool-23-famous-people-with-town-connections-1373544?page=6|title=Made in Hartlepool: 23 famous people who were born, lived or studied here|website=hartlepoolmail.co.uk|date=24 December 2021 ))</ref>
* [[Jeff Stelling]], TV presenter, famous for hosting [[Gillette Soccer Saturday]]<ref>((cite web|url=https://www.northeastlifemag.co.uk/people/celebrity-interviews/jeff-stelling-i-owe-it-all-to-hartlepool-1-1569438|title=Jeff Stelling - I owe it all to Hartlepool|website=North East Life))</ref>
* David Eagle, Folk singer and stand-up comedian,

==Local media==
* [[Hartlepool Life]] - local free newspaper
* [[Hartlepool Mail]] – local newspaper
* [[BBC Radio Tees]] – [[BBC local radio]] station
* [[Radio Hartlepool]] – [[Community radio]] station serving the town
* [[Hartlepool Post]] – on-line publication
* Local television news programmes are [[BBC Look North (North East and Cumbria)|BBC Look North]] and [[ITV News Tyne Tees]].

==Town twinning==
Hartlepool is [[Twin towns and sister cities|twinned]] with:
* ((flagicon|FRA)) [[Sète]], France<ref name="Archant twinning">((cite web|url=http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns|title=British towns twinned with French towns|access-date=11 July 2013|work=Archant Community Media Ltd|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130705094933/http://www.completefrance.com/language-culture/twin-towns|archive-date=5 July 2013))</ref>
* ((flagicon|GER)) [[Hückelhoven]], Germany<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/calls-to-revitalise-links-between-hartlepool-and-german-town-huckelhoven-1-6516529|title=Calls to revitalise links between Hartlepool and German town Huckelhoven|website=hartlepoolmail.co.uk|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150528014208/http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/calls-to-revitalise-links-between-hartlepool-and-german-town-huckelhoven-1-6516529|archive-date=28 May 2015))</ref> (since 1973)
* ((flagicon|USA)) [[Muskegon, Michigan]]
* ((flagicon|MLT)) [[Sliema]], Malta
* ((flagicon|UKR)) [[Novovolynsk]], [[Ukraine]]

==Climate==
Hartlepool has an [[oceanic climate]] typical of Great Britain. The Köppen Climate Classification subtype for this climate is "Cfb"(Marine West Coast Climate).<ref>((cite web|url=http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=591124&cityname=Hartlepool,+England,+United+Kingdom&units=|title=Travel Weather Averages (Weatherbase)|website=Weatherbase))</ref>

((Weather box
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| Feb high F = 44
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==References==
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* [https://online.hartlepool.gov.uk/ Official Website] of the [[Hartlepool (borough)|Borough of Hartlepool]]
* Tide times for Hartlepool from the [https://www.bbc.co.uk/weather/coast_and_sea/tide_tables/4/188#tide-details BBC], [http://www.ukho.gov.uk/easytide/EasyTide/ShowPrediction.aspx?PortID=0188&PredictionLength=7 Easytide] and [https://www.tidetimes.org.uk/hartlepool-tide-times Tidetimes].

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