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Robert Shafto (sometimes spelt Shaftoe) (circa 1732 – 24 November 1797) was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1760 and 1790. He was the likely subject of a famous North East English folk song and nursery rhyme, "Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea" (Roud #1359).
Whitworth Hall Country Park is a parkland based set in 73 acres (300,000 m 2) 8 miles (13 km) from Durham in England, which rests on the outskirts of the town of Spennymoor in County Durham. The park includes Whitworth Hall , a Grade II listed stately mansion (the ancestral home of Bobby Shafto an 18th-century MP ) hotel, deer park, lake and ...
People from Spennymoor by occupation ... Pages in category "People from Spennymoor" The following 10 pages are in this category, out of 10 total. ... Bobby Shafto ...
Bobby Shaftoe may refer to: Bobby Shafto, 18th-century English politician and subject of a famous song; Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea, the song itself; Bobby Shaftoe, a lead character in Neal Stephenson's novel Cryptonomicon; Sergeant Bob Shaftoe, a related 17th-century character in Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle
Spennymoor is a town and civil parish in County Durham, England. It is south of the River Wear and is 7 mi (11 km) south of Durham . The civil parish includes the villages of Kirk Merrington , Middlestone Moor , Byers Green and Tudhoe .
The following people have the name Shafto: Bobby Shafto, 18th century British Member of Parliament (MP), the likeliest subject of a famous North East English folk song; Henry Shafto Harrison (1810–92) was a 19th-century Member of Parliament in Wanganui, New Zealand; Robert Duncombe Shafto (1796–1888), British Liberal Party politician
Tudhoe Grange is a suburb of Spennymoor, in County Durham, in England.Originally it was just a couple of farms on the edge of Tudhoe township, swallowed up as Spennymoor expanded through the 19th and 20th centuries, especially by housing for workers at Tudhoe Iron Works.
Bavington Hall. Bavington Hall is a 17th-century privately owned country house at Little Bavington in Northumberland.It is a Grade II* listed building. [1]A tower house (Little Bavington Tower) was recorded on the site in 1415, but this was replaced in the late 17th century by the Shafto family.