CONSETT, an urban district of Durham, England, 12 M. S.W. of Newcastle-upon-Tyne by a branch of the L.N.E.R. Pop. (1931) 12,25r. It is the centre of a populous industrial district. At Shotley Bridge a colony of German metal-workers, making swords and knives, was established in the i 7th century. Metal working, iron smelting, furnace building and the production of coke are important.