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Secret Barnard Castle & Teesdale
Explore the secret history of Barnard Castle and Teesdale through a fascinating selection of stories, facts and photographs.
Barnard Castle, County Durham : Egglestone Abbey, North Yorkshire : Bowes Castle, North Yorkshire
Barnard Castle is one of the great fortresses of northern England, sited on a cliff above the River Tees. Originally built after the Norman Conquest by the Baliol family, its defences were successively developed during the Middle Ages to create the castle we can see today. After the death of its most famous owner, Richard, Duke of Gloucester, later Richard III, the castle was gradually neglected in the hands of the Crown, even though it managed to hold out for eleven days against rebels during the Rising of the North 1569. Egglestone Abbey, two miles down river, was a small monastery belonging to the Premonstratensian, or 'white', canons. Never wealthy, part of it was converted into a private house after the monastery's dissolution in 1540. Today its ruins form a picturesque scene above the river bank. Nearby Bowes Castle is the shattered ruin of a keep built by Henry II in the corner of a Roman fort to repel the Scots.
A-Z of Barnard Castle & Teesdale
A fascinating alphabetical tour through the heritage of the Barnard Castle and Teesdale part in County Durham.
In Unfamiliar England
In Unfamiliar England is a book by Thos. D. Murphy. A fascinating travelogue where the author takes the reader on an all-England tour by car, with excursions into Ireland as Scotland as well. Excerpt: "Ipswich, though a city of some seventy thousand people and of considerable activity, is by no means shorn of its old-time interest and picturesqueness. There are many crooked old-world streets where the soft, time-mellowed tones of the gray walls and antique gables are diversified by carved beams, plaster fronts and diamond-paned windows, each of which has its box of brightly colored flowers."
Handbook to the Bowes Museum, Barnard Castle (1893)
This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
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