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Derwentside | olspan=2 align=center bgcolor="#ff9999"|Derwentside District | olspan=2 align=center|
Shown within County Durham | | olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Geography | | idth="45%"|Status: | District | | dmin. County: | County Durham | a href="/encyclopedia/Surface-area" title="Surface area">Area:
- Total | Ranked 168th
270.79 km² | | dmin. HQ: | Consett | | a href="/encyclopedia/ONS-coding-system" title="ONS coding system">ONS code: | 20UD | | olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Demographics | a href="/encyclopedia/Population" title="Population">Population:
- Total (2002 est.)
- Density | Ranked 268th
85,133
314 / km² | | thnicity: | 99.4% White | | olspan=2 bgcolor="#ff9999"|Politics | olspan=2 align=center|Derwentside District Council
http://www.derwentside.gov.uk/ | | a href="/encyclopedia/Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors" title="Local_government_in_England#Councils_and_councillors">Leadership: | Leader & Cabinet | | xecutive: | Labour | | a href="/encyclopedia/MPs-elected-in-the-UK-general-election,-2001" title="MPs elected in the UK general election, 2001">MPs: | Kevan Jones, Hilary Armstrong | Derwentside is a local government district in County Durham, England, named after the River Derwent. It sits to the west of Chester-le-Street and to the north and east of the Wear Valley district. Its main towns are Consett and Stanley, with the district council offices on Consett's Medomsley Road. The rest of the district is semi-rural, with numerous former pit villages running into one another. In the past, Derwentside was famous both for its steel industry and coal mining. Since their closure, the district has struggled with unemployment, although recent European Union funding has provided a boost to local business. European money assisted in the creation of, for its time, a highly innovative community internet project. The Derwentside Infonet provided free dialup internet access to community groups, in the mid to late 1990s. The district was formed on April 1, 1974 by the merger of Consett and Stanley urban districts with Lanchester Rural District. External link
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