Shown within County Durham

Teesdale District
Geography
Status:	District
Region:	North East England
Admin. County:	County Durham
Area: - Total	Ranked 42nd 839.98 km²
Admin. HQ:	Barnard Castle
ONS code:	20UH
Demographics
Population: - Total () - Density	Ranked / km²
Ethnicity:	99.1% White
Politics
Teesdale District Council http://www.teesdale.gov.uk/
Leadership:	Alternative - Sec.31
Control:
MP:	Helen Goodman

Teesdale is a local government district in County Durham, England. Its council is based in Barnard Castle. It is the valley of the River Tees.

That part of the district south of the River Tees is historically part of the North Riding of Yorkshire, and made up Startforth Rural District before the Local Government Act 1972 came into effect in 1974. The other predecessors to the district were Barnard Castle urban district and Barnard Castle Rural District.

Much of the area had prior to 1894 constituted a single Teesdale rural sanitary district.

The district is the least populous ordinary district in England, with only the City of London and the Isles of Scilly being smaller. It has the second lowest population density in England, after Eden, Cumbria.

Electorial divisions

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• Barnard Castle East Barnard Castle East ward; Barnard Castle North ward; Eggleston ward; Gainford and Winston ward; Ingleton ward; Staindrop ward; Streatlam and Whorlton ward
• Barnard Castle West Barnard Castle West ward; Barningham and Ovington ward; Cotherstone with Lartington ward; Greta ward; *Middleton-in-Teesdale ward; Romaldkirk ward; Startforth ward
• Evenwood Cockfield ward; Etherley ward; Evenwood, Ramshaw and Lands ward; Hamsterley and South Bedburn ward; Lynesack ward

Local government in County Durham | Shire districts

Links http://www.teesdale2000.co.uk