Hartlepool
| Hartlepool
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| Sovereign state | United Kingdom |
| Country | England |
| Shire county | County Durham |
| Council | Hartlepool Borough Council |
| Population | 92,600 |
Hartlepool is a seaside and port town on the North Sea coast of south-eastern County Durham, England. It has a population of around 93,000. The town has its origins in the 7th century, at which time present-day County Durham was the cradle for the development of Christianity in the kingdom of Northumbria, when the monastery on the Hartlepool headland was founded.
As with the rest of the North East, Hartlepool has in the 21st century seen an increase in social problems such as addiction, unemployment, homelessness and domestic violence. Hartlepool was one of three areas in Northern England to experience twice the national average rates of Deaths of Despair (fatalities associated with drugs, alcohol and/or suicide), with these making making up 70.5 of 100,000 deaths.[1] As of 2010, the abortion rate in Hartlepool was also higher than the national average and the nighest overall in the North East, with 19 abortions per every 1,000 women against an average of 17.5 for England and Wales on the whole.
Hartlepool contains the seaside resort Seaton Carew.
Culture
Hartlepool is mentioned in the popular Irish and American folk song "Poor Paddy Works on the Railway" ("In eighteen hundred and forty two; From Hartlepool I moved to Crewe"), which may date back to as early as the 1850s. A popular rendition of the song was released by Shane MacGowan's band The Pogues in 1984.
