Chester-le-Street

Chester-le-Street
Coordinates	54 ° 52 ′  N , 1 ° 34 ′  W Coordinates: 54 ° 52 ′  N , 1 ° 34 ′  W
Chester-le-Street
Residents	23,946 (as of 2001)
administration
Post town	CHESTER LE STREET
ZIP code section	DH2, DH3
prefix	0191
Part of the country	England
region	North East England
Ceremonial county	County Durham
Unitary authority	County Durham

Chester-le-Street ( ˈtʃɛstəlistriːt ) is a city in County Durham in northern England and has about 24,000 inhabitants.

location

Chester-le-Street is 11 km south of Newcastle upon Tyne and 13 km west of Sunderland on the River Wear .

politics

Until 2009 Chester-le-Street was the capital of the district of the same name before it was transferred to the Unitary Authority County Durham. In general elections, the city is part of the constituency of North Durham , after it had its own constituency until 1979 .

Town twinning

•  Kamp-Lintfort , Germany, since 1981

traffic

The city's train station is on the East Coast Main Line between Durham and Newcastle Central stations and opened in 1868.

Sports

Cricket

In the urban area is the Emirates Durham International Cricket Ground , formerly Riverside Ground, which is the venue for international games, such as test matches . As such, it was used, among other things, as the venue for the 1999 Cricket World Cup and will again be a venue for the 2019 edition . It is also home to the Durham County Cricket Club .

sons and daughters of the town

• William Andrews Nesfield (* 1793), watercolor painter and landscape architect
• Colin Todd (born 1948), football player
• Anne Curry (* 1954), historian
• Bryan Robson (born 1957), football player
• Grant Leadbitter (* 1986), soccer player

Web links

Commons : Chester-le-Street  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Durham unitary authority approved ( English ) BBC. July 25, 2007. Accessed December 31, 2015.