Hartlepool
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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.
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.