Bishop Auckland is a market town in County Durham in North East England. These are placed about Dozen miles northwest of Darlington and 12 miles southwest of Durham City at the confluence of the River Wear with its tributary the River Gaunless. A Flow of any stream Gaunless was given its title by Norsemen in whose tongue it means useless. Based on data from a 2001 census, Bishop Auckland has a people of 16,500.

A Bishop Auckland region has 2 tiers of local government, district council and county council. A local territorial dominion council is Wear Valley District Council and a county council is Durham County Council. A town occurs as a portion of the Bishop Aukland parliamentary constituency, and is presently represented at Westminster by Helen Goodman MP (Labour).

Notable buildings & structures in a town come the Bishop's Palace, the Town Hall & a Victorian Railway Viaduct. Escomb Saxon church and Binchester Roman Fort come besides close by.

A Bishop's palace, typically likewise referred to as Auckland Castle, is the official residence of the Bishop of Durham. These are surrounded per big & beautiful park that was originally utilized by the Bishops for holding hunting trips.

A Town Hall is a "Gothic style" Victorian Building overlooking the town's market place & is Grade 2* listed. A town hall was fully restored in the early xc fallowing existence abandoned so condemned for demolition in the eighties. It at present houses a town's independent public library, a theatre, an art gallery, tourist facts centre & the cafe-bar.

A route of the Roman road Dere Street passes straight through the middle of the town on its way to the nearby Roman Fort at Binchester. Binchester Roman Fort, or Vinovithe when it was known to a Romans, has one of the better preserved examples of a Roman Bath house in the World. Bishop Auckland's independent searching street, Newgate Street, together by having Cockton Hill Road & Watling Road dependably watch a route of Dere Street. Note that Watling Road should non exist as confused by having a Roman road Watling Street, which is in the South of England.

the town too has a Victorian Railway Viaduct crossing the Flow of any stream Get into. A viaduct will bring scenic views of a circumferent countryside following likewise when Auckland Castle, the Bishop's Park & a Town Hall in approaching a town from either a Viaduct. It was originally built to carry a Bishop Auckl& to Durham City railway line through a Flow of any stream Have on and a Newton Cap Bank that leads down to the flow of any stream. a viaduct fell into a period of neglect after the railway line closed & was at one pointed threatened by owning demolition. Even so extra recently, like unco, a viaduct has been converted to require itinerant traffic relieving a fourteenth century only lane Bishop Skirlaw bridge that sits in the vale in the image below it.

A nearby village of Escomb is home to one of a oldest Saxon churches in England.

Actor Stan Laurel of the comedy duo Laurel and Hardy lived in a town during his childhood attending the town's Grammar School. His parents owned a okay, demolished Eden Theatre, which was placed at a junction of Newgate Street & South Church Road.

Bishop Auckland is too notable for its amateur eleven, Bishop Auckland AFC, which won the FA Amateur Cup 1Days in the Trophy's Eighty month history, with appeared in the Final in Nineteen occasions. A adjacent town of West Auckland is notable for having been personal to a foremost team to win the Football World Cup. Its team of local collier won a ventral suction cup in the Easter of 1909, defeating the powerful Juventus in the final. the ventral suction cup itself was purloined withinside 1994 & a reproduction nowadays lives in West Auckland working mens' club.