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Grade I listed manor Gainford Hall in County Durham for rent

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The chance to live in a Grade One listed historic hall has come up in County Durham – if you can afford the £3,500 monthly rent. Extensive restoration work has been carried out at Gainford Hall, a …

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The restoration and rental of Grade One listed Gainford Hall forms part of the five-year Raby Estate transformation …

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Image from page 439 of “Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose” (1835)

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Valley of Desolation
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Title: Westmoreland, Cumberland, Durham, and Northumberland, illustrated : from original drawings by Thomas Allom, George Pickering, & c. ; with descriptions by T. Rose
Year: 1835 (1830s)
Authors: Rose, Thomas, topographer Allom, Thomas, 1804-1872 Pickering, George, d. 1857
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Publisher: London [etc.] : H. Fisher, R. Fisher, & P. Jackson
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CUMBERLAND, DURHAM, AND NORTHUMBERLAND. 219 desolation. A river also runs through it, which is the principal feeder of the lake, andnot less wild in its appearance than the valley itself. This awful solitude occupiesthe distance in our illustrative view. On advancing into this mountainous retreat, thespectator notices the clouds hanging gloomily on the sides of the hills, and concealingfrom his observation more than half their height. The middle of the valley is adorned,as these valleys in some parts are, by a craggy hill, on the top of which stands thefragment of a rock, that looks, in Ossians language, like the stone of power, the rudedeity of desolation, to which the scene is sacred. That portion of the vale of Buttermere which, with reference to the present view, liesin the rear of the observer, is a wide variegated scene, full of rising and falling grounds,woody in many parts, well inhabited in some; fruitful and luxuriant in all. The mountain of High Stile appears on the left in

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