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Rothbury is a market town and civil parish in Northumberland, England, on the River Coquet. It is 14 miles north-west of Morpeth and 26 miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne. At the 2011 census, it had a
Rothbury town centre
Looking east along Town Foot
Bernard Gilpin making Peace among the Borders by taking down the Glove in Rothbury Church, painting by artist William Bell Scott (1811–1890) and housed at Wallington Hall, one of a series of eight oil paintings illustrating the history of the English Border
Cragside described by the Victorian periodical The World as "Truly the palace of a modern magician
Cragside
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Cragside is a Tudor Revival country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. Dating to the Victorian era, it was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, founder of the A
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…extensively in the Victorian era, due in large part to the railway and the industrialist Sir William Armstrong. Between 1862 and 1865, Armstrong built Cragside, a country house and "shooting box" (hunting lodge) just outside Rothbury, and extended it as a "fairy palace" between 1869 and 1900. The house and its…
Armstrong in the 1870s
The top-lit Gallery, formerly Armstrong's museum
The entrance front – Shaw's "Wagnerian" overture