Lambton Castle
Lambton Castle stands above Chester-le-Street, County Durham and is a stately home, the ancestral seat of the Lambton family, the Earls of Durham. It is listed in the mid-category of listed building, Grade II*.Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
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- Type: Castle
- Description: castle in County Durham, England, UK
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Biddick Hall and Chartershaugh Bridge.
Biddick Hall
Manor estate
Photo: P Glenwright, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Biddick Hall is a small privately owned 18th-century country mansion at Bournmoor, County Durham, near the City of Sunderland and Chester-le-Street. It is a Grade I listed building and the home of the Lambton family. Biddick Hall is situated 1 mile east of Lambton Castle.
Chartershaugh Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Craigy144, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Chartershaugh Bridge is a road traffic bridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking Penshaw with Fatfield as part of the A182 road. The bridge was opened in 1975 and is named after the former settlement of Chartershaugh, which once stood on a site near the bridge. Chartershaugh Bridge is situated 1 mile northeast of Lambton Castle.
Penshaw Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Martin Le Roy, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Penshaw Bridge, also known as Fatfield Bridge, is a road traffic bridge spanning the River Wear in North East England, linking Penshaw with Fatfield. The bridge was opened on 29 January 1890. Penshaw Bridge is situated 1¼ miles northeast of Lambton Castle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Lumley Thicks and Woodstone Village.
Lumley Thicks
Hamlet
Lumley Thicks is a small village in County Durham, in England. It is situated between Chester-le-Street and Houghton-le-Spring, north of Great Lumley.
Woodstone Village
Village
Woodstone Village is a hamlet in the civil parish of Little Lumley, in the County Durham district, in the ceremonial county of Durham, England. It neighbours the larger villages of Fencehouses and Burnmoor. Woodstone Village is situated 1½ miles southeast of Lambton Castle.
Penshaw
Village
Photo: FTMSuperfly, Public domain.
Penshaw, formerly known as Painshaw or Pensher is a village in the metropolitan district of Sunderland, in Tyne and Wear, England. Historically, Penshaw was located in County Durham. Penshaw is situated 1½ miles east of Lambton Castle.
Lambton Castle
- Categories: English country house, building, historic site, tourist attraction, and tourism
- Location: Bournmoor, County Durham, North East England, England, United Kingdom, Britain and Ireland, Europe
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Latitude
54.86713° or 54° 52′ 2″ northLongitude
-1.53668° or 1° 32′ 12″ westOpen location code
9C6WVF87+V8OpenStreetMap ID
way 476741785OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=castleWikidata ID
Q6481592
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Danish to Turkish—“Lambton Castle” goes by many names.
- Danish: “Lambton Castle”
- French: “château de Lambton”
- French: “Château de Lambton”
- German: “Lambton Castle”
- Irish: “Caisleán Lambton”
- Italian: “Castel Lambton”
- Japanese: “ラムトン城”
- Turkish: “Lambton Kalesi”
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Highlights include Greenhouse Bank Wood and Castle Field Wood.
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