Hartlepool
[key], borough and unitary authority, NE England. A seaport, Hartlepool
imports timber, wood pulp, petroleum, and iron ore. Industries include
shipbuilding, iron and steel manufacturing, marine engineering, and brewing.
Servicing the North Sea petroleum fields has become increasingly important.
Hartlepool is also the home of a herring fleet. A convent founded on the
site in 640 was famous under St. Hilda (649–657) and was destroyed by
the Danes in 800. In the 12th and 13th cent., Hartlepool was the chief port
of the palatinate of Durham. The West
Hartlepool dock developed in the 19th cent. as a port for coal export. A
nuclear power plant was completed in the early 1980s.
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