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When
the border feuding and fighting ended the landowners such as the Duke of
Northumberland at Alnwick rebuilt their castles and estates. The
Middleton family at Belsay and Lord Armstrong at Cragside built new
dwellings on their family estates. Many of these houses and more are maintained
by the English Heritage & National Trust who have them open to visitors.
Belsay
Hall
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Belsay
Hall a remarkable estate with castle and manor house and hall which designed by
the Newcastle architect, John Dobson. It is maintained by English Heritage and a
walk in the grounds and gardens through the quarry to the castle ruins is
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Lord Armstrong's Cragside
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Cragside a Victorian house situated in
900 acres built by industrialist Lord Armstrong as a home and a place to test
his engineering theories, hence the house was the first in the world to be lit
by hydro-electricity. It is now a showcase of Victorian art architecture and
technology. Open year round except Mondays and also Tuesdays in the winter,
maintained by the National Trust there is a Tea Shop, Gift Store and acres to
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Lady
Waterford Hall
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Lady
Waterford Hall Ford Village near Wooler is a 19th century village school
decorated with biblical murals by Louisa who at the time was Marchioness of
Waterford, with the faces are of villagers from the Ford and Etal estate.
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Seaton
Deleval Hall
Seaton
Deleval Hall north of Whitley Bay is an English baroque house which was rebuilt
following a fire in 1822 by the architect Sir John Vanbrugh, renowned for Castle
Howard in Yorkshire.
Wallington
Hall
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Wallington
Hall in the hands of the National Trust is a 17th Century mansion, home of the
Trevelyan family, fully furnished with murals by William Bell Scott, depicting
the history of Northumberland. There is also a fine collection of dolls houses
and a recently rebuilt walled garden to stroll around at your leisure with tea
room and gift shop.
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