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Dist:0.1km<br/>The farm has been converted into a cluster of craft workshops and retail outlets.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.2km<br/>Kirkharle was the birthplace of Lancelot 'Capability' Brown (1716-1783). He became a gardener and famous landscape designer to many of the country's great estates and eventually to George III. He lived and worked on this estate until the age of 23 but regularly returned later to visit family and friends. His plans to landscape the grounds of the Kirkharle Estate were recently discovered although never implemented. Ground works are currently in progress to create his design for a serpentine lake by damming the Kirkharle Burn http://www.kirkharlecourtyard.co.uk/explore/capbrown.php
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.2km<br/>One of a number of buildings comprising the Kirkharle Farm Craft Centre.
©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.2km<br/>Tea room, craft shops, impressive farmhouse.
©Les Hull
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©Les Hull
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©Oliver Dixon
Dist:0.3km<br/>Kirkharle Manor used to be the vicarage of Kirkharle village. It was constructed in the earlier part of the 19th century and shows the standing of the inhabitant vicar by being made of fine ashlar and slate. This is a Grade II Listed Building protected by law. http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N21151
©Les Hull
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©Mike Quinn
Dist:0.3km<br/>This stone monument has an information board alongside, seen just to the right of the memorial stone in this picture, which bears the following information. This stone monument was erected in memory of Robert Loraine, who was 'barbarously murdered' by Scottish raiders in 1483 'as he was returning home from church alone, where he had been at his private devotions.' Loraine was a border reiver and ( according to the 1738 history of the Loraine Family) ' a zealous Prosecutor of Robbers, Theives and Moss-Troopers.' He lived during a time of semi-lawlessness, in which 'reiving' or 'raiding' on both sides of the Anglo-Scottish border was commonplace. Rober Loraine's family had made Kirkharle Tower (a defensive pele tower) their home in the early 1400's. The tower at Kirkharle was linked for defence with one owned by the Fenwicks in Wallington. Robert kept a certain number of horses and arms always ready, suitable for his estate....to pursue the Scots Excursions and Depradations into Northumberland. Robert Loraine was killed by 'a party of men' who 'lay in ambush' between his house and the church...and in his return home suddely surprised him and dragged him into an adjacent close. The circumstances of his death were particularly bloodthirsty; Robert's descendant, Sir Lambtaon Loraine, 11th Baronet, recounted to a journalist from the New York Times in 1874. The latter wrote that the killers 'were determined to strike terror into the hearts of his allies, 'The Fenwickes, Wallingtons, Shaftoes' by the brutality of the murder. Robert's body was cut up 'small as flesh for the pot' and placed in the saddlebags of his horse, which was then set loose to wander home. The memorial stone was erected in 1728, by Sir William Loraine, 2nd Baronet (the first employer of Lancelot 'Capabiity' Brown) replacing an earlier monument to 'This Unfortunate Gentleman' which had fallen into disrepair.
©Bill Henderson
Dist:0.4km<br/>The Church of St Wilfred was built in the 14th century, but altered later. The Church of St Wilfred is a Grade I Listed Building protected by law. http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N10483
©Les Hull
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©Mike Quinn
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©Mike Quinn
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©Mike Quinn
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©Bill Henderson
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©Les Hull

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