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This 15th-century tower, sole survivor of the manor house of the Wybergh family, was plundered by Jacobites in 1745 before the Battle of Clifton Moor, the last battle fought on English soil....
Levens Hall is a magnificent Elizabethan mansion built around a 13th Century. The first dwelling at Levens was a medieval pele tower, built by the de Redman family of Yealand Redmayne. The Bellingham family, who were wealthy landowners, chose Levens...
Swarthmoor Hall was built about 1586 by George Fell, a local landowner. His son, Thomas, inherited the Hall and here in 1652 George Fox, the founder of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers), gained the support and encouragement of Margaret, Thom...
Abbot Hall Art Gallery in Kendal, Cumbria is housed in one of Kendal's most important buildings, a Grade I listed villa, on the banks of the river Kent. The galleries offer two floors of light-filled spaces in which to see art. The intimate rooms and...
Brougham Hall stands on a site which has been a fortified home since at least 1307.
It reached it's zenith in Victorian Times, when it became known as the Windsor of the North, and the home of the Lord Chancellor of England.
As a halfway hous...
Graythwaite Hall Gardens deftly illustrate the genius of Thomas Mawson. Commisioned in 1896 he was instructed to utilise the existing contours and landscape to make a garden combining the formal and informal.
It is essentially a Spring garden sett...
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