Where is Chirton Hall?

Chirton Hall is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 55.0076°, -1.4613°.

Historic houses · North East England

Chirton Hall

Chirton Hall in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Chirton Hall is a place of interest in England North East, United Kingdom — drawn from open-data sources for visitor reference. See the linked Wikipedia article for the full description.

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Chirton Hall or Chirton House, occasionally spelled Churton and originally Cheuton, was a country house in Chirton, in what is now a western suburb of North Shields, Tyne and Wear, North East England. Historically, the house was in the county of Northumberland.

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History

In 1672, Ralph Reed sold his land in Chirton to John Clarke, an agent of Josceline Percy, 11th Earl of Northumberland. The labour to build the large, plain, brick house came from the Percy estate. | width =35% | align =right }} Clarke spared many of the castle walls because he found it would be more expensive to pull them down than to purchase new stones from the quarry. After he died in 1675, Clarke's widow, Jane, married Philip Bickerstaffe (MP for Berwick in 1685) the same year Jane died in 1694. On 1 August 1699 Bickerstaffe surrendered his copyhold lands in Chirton to Sir William Blackett who sold the hall to Archibald Campbell, 1st Duke of Argyll. Robert Lawson, the High Sheriff of…

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