Hartlepool
an English seaport in the North Sea, consisting of Hartlepool proper and former West Hartlepool, separated by Hartlepool Bay. A parliamentary borough of Durham County. The first harbor was constructed at West Hartlepool in 1847, of 12 acres, and has since been greatly enlarged.
The dock area of Hartlepool and West Hartlepool together, including the timber and shipbuilding yards, etc., is over 300 acres in extent. Extensive iron shipbuilding yards, cement works, wood pulp works, and marine engine building establishments have been established.
Governed from 1854 by a local commission, the town was created a municipal borough in 1887. Pop. of municipal borough about 85,300. Hartlepool was bombarded by the Germans in 1914.