Whitworth Hall Country Park
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Whitworth Hall Country Park is a parkland based set in 73 acres (295,420.8 m²) 8 miles (12.9 km) from Durham
Durham
Durham is a city in north east England. It is within the County Durham local government district, and is the county town of the larger ceremonial county...
in England
England
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, which rests on the outskirts of the town of Spennymoor
Spennymoor
Spennymoor is a town in County Durham, England. It stands above the Wear Valley approximately seven miles south of Durham. The town was founded over 160 years ago...
in County Durham
County Durham
County Durham is a ceremonial county and unitary district in north east England. The county town is Durham. The largest settlement in the ceremonial county is the town of Darlington...
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The park includes Whitworth Hall
Whitworth Hall, County Durham
Whitworth Hall which stands in Whitworth Hall Country Park, near Spennymoor, County Durham England, is a country house, formerly the home of the Shafto family and now a hotel. It is a listed building....
, a Grade II listed stately mansion (the ancestral home of Bobby Shafto
Bobby Shafto
Robert Shafto was an 18th-century British Member of Parliament , who was the likeliest subject of a famous North East English folk song and nursery rhyme "Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea".-Biography:...
an 18th century MP
Member of Parliament
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) hotel, deer park, lake and Shafto's Inn. The park includes a Victorian
Victorian era
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walled garden
Garden
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which contains England's most northerly vineyard
Vineyard
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. The current building was rebuilt in the 19th century.