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The Best Attractions In Kirkharle

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Kirkharle Courtyard

Cragside House and Gardens

Ross Back Sands Beach

The Forbidden Corner

St Aiden Beach

Bamburgh Castle

Buttermere

Donald Thomas Younger Curry, Baron Curry of Kirkharle, CBE is a British farmer and businessman who is the former chair of NFU Mutual and non-executive chair of the Better Regulation Executive, and a member of the House of Lords. Curry was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the 1997 New Year Honours, and as announced in the 2001 Birthday Honours, was knighted on 12 July 2001.In 2001–2 he chaired the Policy Commission on the Future of Farming and Food, known as the Curry Commission, which produced a report for the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.On the recommendation of the House of Lords Appointments...
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The Best Attractions In Kirkharle

1. Kirkharle Courtyard Kirkharle
Kirkharle is a hamlet in the county of Northumberland in Northern England located about 12 miles west of the town of Morpeth, just to the west of the crossroads of the A696 and B6342 roads. It is famous as the birthplace of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown in the early eighteenth century.
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2. Bamburgh Castle Bamburgh
Bamburgh Castle is a castle on the northeast coast of England, by the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland. It is a Grade I listed building.The site was originally the location of a Celtic Brittonic fort known as Din Guarie and may have been the capital of the kingdom of Bernicia from its foundation in c. 420 to 547. After passing between the Britons and the Anglo-Saxons three times, the fort came under Anglo-Saxon control in 590. The fort was destroyed by Vikings in 993, and the Normans later built a new castle on the site, which forms the core of the present one. After a revolt in 1095 supported by the castle's owner, it became the property of the English monarch. In the 17th century, financial difficulties led to the castle deteriorating, but it was restored by various owners during th...
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3. Cragside House and Gardens Rothbury
Cragside is a Victorian country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. It was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, founder of the Armstrong Whitworth armaments firm. An industrial magnate, scientist, philanthropist and inventor of the hydraulic crane and the Armstrong gun, Armstrong also displayed his inventiveness in the domestic sphere, making Cragside the first house in the world to be lit using hydroelectric power. The entire estate was technologically advanced; the architect of the house, Richard Norman Shaw, wrote that it was equipped with wonderful hydraulic machines that do all sorts of things. In the grounds, Armstrong built dams and created lakes to power a sawmill, a water-powered laundry, early versions of a dishwasher and a dumb waiter, a hy...
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4. St Aiden Beach Bamburgh
5. Buttermere Buttermere
Buttermere is a lake in the English Lake District in North West England. The adjacent village of Buttermere takes its name from the lake. Historically in Cumberland, the lake is now within the county of Cumbria. It is owned by the National Trust, forming part of its Buttermere and Ennerdale property.
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6. Ross Back Sands Beach Bamburgh
7. The Forbidden Corner Middleham

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Was Lancelot Capability Brown a great landscape designer?

Lancelot Capability Brown was wildly popular in his lifetime. Then he was ridiculed for a century. Now, in the 300th year of his birth, he is Britain's most famous and admired landscape architect and garden designer. WHY?

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