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Despite attracting tens of thousands of visitors a year, Wentworth Castle Gardens was forced to close in the spring of 2017. [1] During the closure years a small team of gardeners and a group of community volunteers carried out essential maintenance of the gardens and curated an archive of material about the site's history.
The Obelisk to Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, in Wentworth Castle Gardens, South Yorkshire, has been upgraded to Grade II* by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport on the advice of Historic England.
The main building is Grade I listed dating back to the 17th and 18th centuries with 40 acres of formal gardens and 600 acres of parkland. It is set in the only Grade I listed landscape in South Yorkshire, Wentworth Castle Gardens. [1] The Northern College. The college is one of the two residential adult education colleges in the United Kingdom.
King George V and Queen Mary visited south Yorkshire from 8 to 12 July 1912 and stayed at Wentworth Woodhouse for four days. The house party consisted of a large number of guests, including: Dr Cosmo Gordon Lang, the then-Archbishop of York; the Earl of Harewood and his Countess; the Marchioness of Londonderry; the Marquess of Zetland and Lady Zetland; the Earl of Scarborough and Lady ...
The parish contains the former country house, Wentworth Castle, which is listed at Grade I, its gardens and grounds, and Stainborough Park, which contain most of the buildings in the list. These include buildings associated with the house, Home Farm and its farm buildings, monuments and a statue, a church, a bridge, and follies .
Wentworth Castle: not a castle but a country house. Amongst post-medieval buildings in England that are known as castles, a few, such as Peckforton Castle, closely resemble medieval castles. Many others, such as Clearwell Castle, have some castle-like features, and some, like Mereworth Castle, bear no resemblance whatsoever to a castle. The ...
This western part includes the market town of Penistone and Wentworth Castle and its Grade I listed gardens, [20] Cannon Hall Park and Museum, [21] Cawthorne Jubilee Museum, [22] Wortley Hall and gardens, [23] and Wortley Top Forge (16th century Forge). [24] In 2002, Barnsley Council and partners launched a consultation, "Rethinking Barnsley".
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