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Streatlam Castle is in North East England, in the United Kingdom — coordinates 54.5710°, -1.8700°.

Castles · North East England

Streatlam Castle

Streatlam Castle in England North East, United Kingdom.

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Typical visit: 1.5 h–3 h

Streatlam Castle 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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Streatlam Castle was a Baroque English country house near the town of Barnard Castle in County Durham, that was demolished in 1959. Owned by the Bowes-Lyon family, Earls of Strathmore and Kinghorne, the house was one of their three principal seats, alongside Glamis Castle in Forfarshire, Scotland, and Gibside, near Gateshead. Streatlam incorporated some 1,190 acres (4.8 km2) of land, along with an estate consisting of some twenty farms. The last occupant was Lord Glamis, later the 15th Earl, although the estate was still owned at the time by his father, the 14th Earl, uncle to Queen Elizabeth II.

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Background

History

The house had come to the Bowes family by the fifteenth century. For much of the nineteenth century, it was owned by the art collector John Bowes, who founded the Bowes Museum in nearby Barnard Castle. He was the eldest son of the 10th Earl of Strathmore, but, as his parents did not marry until after his birth, he was able to inherit only a life interest in the family's English wealth and properties. During his tenancy, Streatlam was described as consisting of twenty-four bedrooms, two oak drawing-rooms, the yellow drawing room, the great dining room, the billiard-room, the study and the gentlemen's room. Following his death without issue, the estate was reunited with the Earldom in 1885.…

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