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Roddham Hall, an 18th Century house near Woopeton, Northumberland. Once the home of Admiral Robert Roddam http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Roddam
©Christine Westerback
Taken from a similar location to [[428999]]
©Andrew Curtis
A modest-sized country house seen in its parkland and behind its C18th retaining wall and ha-ha. The central block is early C18th and was reduced from two-and-a-half storeys in the late 1970s (Pevsner wrote that the change has made the house "seem somehow gentler, less Northumbrian"). The pedimented wings were added by Lancelot Coxon in 1765-83(closer view: [[[1844306]]]). Grade II listed.
©Stephen Richards
Dist:0.3km<br/>Viewed from a minor road with Roddam Hall in the background.
©Walter Baxter
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©Walter Baxter
Dist:0.3km<br/>The gate across the road at the Southern end of the road that passes Roddam hall.
©David Clark
Dist:0.4km<br/>Gates to Roddam Hall. The road now running between them is public.
©Stephen Richards
Dist:0.4km<br/>Roddam Hall's park on the right.
©Stephen Richards
Dist:0.6km<br/>Country cottage at Roddam Dean in winter
©John Fiddes
Dist:0.6km<br/>Bales by a minor road to Roddam Rigg.
©Walter Baxter
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©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.7km<br/>This photo is the starting point of a virtual walk to an unclaimed First Geograph in Threestoneburn Wood [[NT9619]]; go here to continue [[1834091]] The track goes to Ilderton via a rough track and ford, and is marked 'unsuitable for motor vehicles'. The modern road swings east before this point on the line of Admiral Avenue, once an estate road to Roddam Hall. This was the start of the long walk for George and I in an attempt to reach [[NT9619]], probably the last 'green' square in the Cheviots (at least that part not prone to artillery shells). That it's still green is all my fault; but that's a story to tell you later, if we get there. So then, boots on, round the corner and down the track towards the ford.
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.8km<br/>The flowers of Primula vulgaris are hermaphrodite but heterostylous; individual plants bear either pin flowers (like here: with the capita of the style prominent) or thrum flowers (with the stamens prominent). Fertilisation can only take place between pin and thrum flowers which ensures cross pollination http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primula_vulgaris Click here to return to walk [[1834091]]
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.8km<br/>This photo is part of a virtual walk, go here for the start [[1833301]] or here to continue [[1834106]] The track descends steeply to the ford in the valley bottom. There is a steep drop down to Roddam Burn from the ridge on the left, and the right bank is lined with primroses [[1836517]]. Clearly unsuitable for motor vehicles as it is steep, rough and very muddy in places but its long use by hooves and carts in the past has considerably worn down the level of the track.
©Andrew Curtis
Dist:0.8km<br/>This photo is part of a virtual walk, go here for the start [[1833301]] or here to continue [[1834118]] The old road from Ingram to Ilderton fords the Roddam Burn which lies in a deep wooded valley. There is a photo submitted in 2005 here [[58520]]
©Andrew Curtis

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