Pockerley Old Hall, Beamish Museum (C) Andrew Curtis

NZ2254 : Pockerley Old Hall, Beamish Museum

taken 6 years ago, near to Beamish, County Durham, Great Britain

Pockerley Old Hall, Beamish Museum

The Old Hall, is an original building on the museum site. The building dates back to the C12th. The C13th saw a period of expansion of the farm’s holding and in around 1440 a solid stone strong-house or Pele Tower was built on the hill top. Parts of the this building still survive, visible here on the buttressed east gable adjoining the newer house built in the late 1700s.
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Beamish Museum

Beamish Museum is an open-air museum located at Beamish, near the town of Stanley in County Durham. The museum's guiding principle is to preserve an example of everyday life in urban and rural North-East England at the climax of industrialisation in the early 20th century.

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Grid Square: NZ2254, 93 images (more nearby )
Photographer: Andrew Curtis (find more nearby)
Image classification^?: Geograph
Date Taken: Friday, 1 July, 2011 (more nearby)
Submitted: Saturday, 2 July, 2011
Geographical Context: Historic sites and artefacts Sport, Leisure Housing, Dwellings Educational sites
Subject Location: OSGB36: NZ 2224 5455 [10m precision]
WGS84: 54:53.1126N 1:39.2913W
Camera Location: OSGB36: NZ 2225 5457
View Direction: South-southwest (about 202 degrees)