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| Castle | Capheaton Castle | Revd Mr Walker | 60 chains North of | |||
| (Site of) | site of | Makemerich | ||||
| Capheaton Castle | Mr Turnbull | |||||
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| Capheaton Castle | Revd Septimus Meggieson | |||||
| site of | The Castle stood a little to the | |||||
| Capheaton Castle | Hodgson's History of Northumberld} | South of the present Hall | ||||
| site of | Pt 2 Vol. 1 P. 218 } | it was moated round and | ||||
| Capheaton Castle | Burk's Peerage | reputed for being a place of strength | ||||
| site of | Every vestige of the moat & Castle | |||||
| Capheaton Castle | Collins Histy | have alike disappeared | ||||
| site of | "Hodgson's" referring to the Castle says "it occurs in the list of | |||||
| fortified places made out some time while the Duke of Bedford had possession of the | ||||||
| estates of Henry Percy." "Collins" describes it "moated about and had a draw | ||||||
| bridge and was a place of resort in the moss trooping times when the Gentlemen | ||||||
| of the Country met together to oppose those felonious aggressors upon the goods & | ||||||
| Chattels of the Country" | ||||||
| "Capheaton was anciently a Castle with moat & drawbridge and a beacon on the | ||||||
| summit it served as a place of rendezvous for the gentlemen of the Country who | ||||||
| met together to oppose the felonious aggression of the mass troopers, it was | ||||||
| thrown down and rebuilt by Sir Wm Swinburne in 1688[sic]" | ||||||
| "Burk's Peerage" | ||||||
| Capheaton Hall | Capheaton Hall | White's Directory | 61 chains N of Makemerich | |||
| Capheaton Hall | Hodgsons History | Was erected in 16 |
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| Capheaton Hall | Revd. Septimus Meggieson | of the old Castle from designs by Robert Trollop it is a | ||||
| Capheaton Hall | Revd. Mr. Walker | handsome mansion having Servant's Hall Stabling gardens | ||||
| and ornamental grounds attached. the south front commands | ||||||
| a beautiful prospect over an extensive ornamental Park and the | ||||||
| North front looks onto the extensive wood that nearly envelopes the Hall | ||||||
| It is the property & residence of Sir John Swinburne | ||||||
| Thomas Jordan 2nd Corporal Royal Engineers | ||||||
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