Whitworth_Hall_Country_Park

Whitworth Hall Country Park

Whitworth Hall Country Park

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Whitworth Hall Country Park is a parkland based set in 73 acres (300,000 m2) 8 miles (13 km) from Durham in England, which rests on the outskirts of the town of Spennymoor in County Durham.

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The Vineyard
The Lake
Grade II stately mansion which is now a hotel is situated within the park
Apples grow up the wall of the garden

The park includes Whitworth Hall, a Grade II listed stately mansion (the ancestral home of Bobby Shafto an 18th-century MP) hotel, deer park, lake and Shafto's Inn. The park includes a Victorian walled garden which contains England's most northerly vineyard. The current building was rebuilt in the 19th century.
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