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Cragside is a Victorian Tudor Revival country house near the town of Rothbury in Northumberland, England. It was the home of William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong , founder of the Armstrong Whitworth armaments firm.
His new house was called Cragside, and over the years Armstrong added to the Cragside estate. Eventually the estate was 1,729 acres (7.00 km 2) and had seven million trees planted, together with five artificial lakes and 31 miles (50 km) of carriage drives.
The title became extinct on his death in 1900. The title was revived three years later, on 4 August 1903, for his great-nephew William Watson-Armstrong, who was created Baron Armstrong, of Bamburgh and of Cragside in the County of Northumberland. Born William Watson, he had assumed the additional surname of Armstrong by Royal licence in 1889.
In 1903 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Armstrong, of Bamburgh and Cragside in the County of Northumberland, [8] a revival of the barony which had become extinct on his great-uncle's death three years earlier. Lord Armstrong was married three times. He married firstly Winifreda Jane Adye, daughter of General Sir John Miller Adye, in 1889 ...
Kragsyde's footprint was that of broad "V" – the three-and-a-half-story main house (75 x 45 ft / 22.9 x 13.7 m) facing the Atlantic Ocean, and a secondary wing (20 x 55 ft / 6.1 x 16.8 m) set at a 45-degree angle. [3] It was designed not only to maximize the views, but to capture the cool sea breezes.
Expanding his landholdings around Cragside, Lord Armstrong acquired Cragend, a nearby 16th-century farmhouse [7] two miles south of Rothbury. [8] He started work on modernising the farm in the 1880s, [ 8 ] and around 1895 built the experimental hydraulic silo building now known as Cragend Silo.
MV Ocean Trader (ex-Cragside) is a Special Warfare Support vessel operated by the United States Military Sealift Command. [ 1 ] The vessel has been proposed to serve as a special operations base for up to 200 troops, hangar bays for helicopters, gyms and weapons lockers.
Designed by Richard Norman Shaw for William Armstrong, 1st Baron Armstrong, Cragside is a house of firsts. The first in the world to be lit by hydroelectricity, it also topped Mark Girouard's list of Victorian houses that should be saved for the nation.