Rokeby

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Bowes Museum

Museum

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The Bowes Museum is an art gallery in the town of Barnard Castle, in County Durham in northern England. It was built to designs by Jules Pellechet and John Edward Watson to house the art collection of John Bowes and his wife Joséphine Benoîte Coffin-Chevallier, and opened in 1892.

Rokeby Park

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Rokeby Park is a country house in the Palladian style in the civil parish of Rokeby, in Northern England. It is close to the confluence of the River Tees and River Greta, near Greta Bridge in what is now County Durham.

Egglestone Abbey

Photo: Jonathan Oldenbuck, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Egglestone Abbey is a ruined Premonstratensian abbey in County Durham, England. It is 1+1⁄2 miles southeast of Barnard Castle, on the south bank of the River Tees, and was historically within the North Riding of Yorkshire.

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Barnard Castle

Photo: Nick Bramhall, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Barnard Castle is a market town in County Durham in northeast England, with a population of 5800 in 2021. It has a picturesque ruined castle and the over-the-top Bowes Museum.

Startforth

Village

Photo: Bill Henderson, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Startforth is a village on the Pennines end of south Teesdale, England. The population of Startforth taken at the 2011 Census was 1,361. It was in the historic North Riding of Yorkshire. Startforth is situated 2½ miles northwest of Rokeby.

Brignall

Hamlet

Photo: Alexander P Kapp, CC BY-SA 2.0.

Brignall is a village and civil parish in the south-west of County Durham, England. It is located in an elevated position adjacent to the River Greta, 1.2 miles upstream from Greta Bridge.

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