Its independent towns come Consett and Stanley, with the zone council agents in Consett's Medomsley Road. A rest of the territorial dominion is semi-rural, by owning many previous pit villages heading into of these an additional.

It used to be that, Derwentside was illustrious two for its steel industry & coal mining. Since their closure, a territory has struggled by owning unemployment, although recent European Union funding has provided a boost to local businesses & visitant attractions.

European money assisted in the creation of, for its period, the extremely innovative community cyberspace design. A Derwentside Infonet provided loose dialup cyberspace access to community groups, in the mid to late 1990s.

A territory was formed in April 1, 1974 by the merger of Consett and Stanley urban districts sustaining Lanchester Rural District.