Bywell Hall is a privately owned 18th-century country house situated on the north bank of the

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Bywell Bywell is a village and civil parish in Northumberland, England. It is situated on the north bank of the River Tyne opposite Stocksfield, between Hexham and Newcastle. The parish has a population of around 380 and Newton to the north is now i ...

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, England. It is a

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History

The manor of Bywell and Bywell Castle were owned by the

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in the 14th century but following the

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for his part in the

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the Neville estates were forfeited and Bywell was sold in 1571 by the Crown to the Fenwick family. William Fenwick (son of John Fenwick

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in 1727) built the new house at Bywell to designs by architect James Paine in 1760. The estate was sold to

Thomas Wentworth Beaumont Thomas Wentworth Beaumont (5 November 1792 – 20 December 1848) of Bretton Hall, Wakefield in Yorkshire, and of Bywell Hall in Northumberland, was a British politician and soldier. In 1831, at the time he inherited his mother's estate, he ...

for £145,000 early in the 19th century and the house was improved by the Beaumonts, with the assistance of architect John Dobson, in 1827 and further altered later in the 19th century. The house is the home of Wentworth Beaumont, 4th Viscount Allendale and the estate is operated commercially by Allendale Estates.

References

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