Historic houses · North East England
County Hall
County Hall in England North East, United Kingdom.
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Plan your visit
- Typical visit
- 1 h–2 h
About
County Hall is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.
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From the Wikipedia article
County Hall is a municipal building in Morpeth, Northumberland, United Kingdom. It is the offices and meeting place of Northumberland County Council. The current building was completed in April 1981, after the county hall was moved from the old county hall in Newcastle. A statue of a Viking Warrior stands outside the building and was moved there from Doxford Hall.
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Background
History
For much of the 20th century County Hall was situated within an exclave of Northumberland (in the Moot Hall precincts) within the county borough of Newcastle upon Tyne; the area became part of the county of Tyne and Wear in 1974 and was thus extraterritorial to the county of Northumberland. After deciding that this arrangement was unsatisfactory, county leaders chose to procure a new purpose-built county headquarters within the territorial limits of the county: the site selected in Morpeth had previously been agricultural land. The foundation stone for the new building was laid by Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother on 6 April 1979. It was designed in the modern style and was opened on 21…
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- Coordinates
- 55.1529, -1.6840
- Address
- Morpeth, Northumberland
- Established
- 1981
Sources
- wikidata: Q55139255 (CC0)
- wikipedia: County Hall, Morpeth (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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Frequently asked questions
- Where is County Hall?
- County Hall is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.1529°, -1.6840°.
- When was County Hall built?
- County Hall dates to 1981.