Hartlepool

The Hartlepool Webcams show views of the Marina, historic quay, town and lock gates. Hartlepool is a North Sea port in North East England. It is within the unitary authority area of the Borough of Hartlepool, for ceremonial purposes part of County Durham. The place name derives from Old English *heort-ieg "hart island", referring to stags seen, and pol, "pool". Records of the place-name from early sources confirm this. Hart is the Old English name for a stag or deer which appears on the towns crest and le pool meant by the sea, people moved here to hunt where there was deer by the sea and eventually settled there, the petrified forest below the sea provides proof thet hart(deer) did once live in a forest by the sea, hence Hartlepool. During the Middle Ages the village grew into an important (though still small) town, gaining a market and walls, and its harbour was improved to serve as the official port of the County palatine of Durham. Its harbour made it a convenient outlet for the coalfields of South Durham and in 1835 a railway was built to enable South Durham coal to be exported. A rival railway was built in 1847 and docks were established at its terminus, around which a new town, West Hartlepool, was founded. Hartlepool is famous for allegedly executing a monkey during the Napoleonic Wars. Hartlepool nuclear power station is an advanced gas-cooled reactor (AGR) type nuclear power plant opened near Hartlepool in the 1980s.A goodsource of town income. View a Hartlepool Webcam

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Pressure994 hpa
Humidity68 %
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