Tuesday, 12 August 2025

Gibside Hall

 Gibside Hall is located in the Derwent Valley in County Durham between Rowlands Gill and Burnopfield. The hall and landscape park was created by  Sir George Bowes (1701–60) who owned the Winlaton Mill Iron Works, then the largest iron works in Europe at the time.

The Bowes-Lyon family added Gibside Chapel, the Banqueting House, a column of Liberty, a substantial stable block, an avenue of oaks and several hundred acres of forest in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

In 1920 the Hall was dismantled, everything of value was removed to Glamis Castle, the seat of the Earls of Strathmore in Scotland.

Gibside Hall IJ and Sherlock

Gibside Hall IJ and Sherlock Liberty Column

Gibside Hall Liberty Column

Gibside Hall Liberty Column

Gibside Hall CG and Sherlock

Gibside Hall Sherlock Doggy Ice Cream