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8 Comments CherryPie on Mar 8th 2014

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10 Comments CherryPie on Mar 7th 2014

Wallington is the home to generations of the Blackett and Trevelyan families.  Over the years these two families altered the house and the surrounding landscape:

Today the Wallington estate consists of 13,500 acres of land, 15 farms and the village of Cambo, Wallington is still home to over 100 households and continues to be a family [...]

6 Comments CherryPie on Mar 6th 2014

The stone heads on the lawn in front of Wallington capture ones eye as you drive past.  Depending on which source you read they are either Dragons of Gryphens.  With only the heads on display the jury is out…
But where did they come from?

Four griffins’ heads with protruding eyes, large ears, snarling mouths and hair [...]

14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 5th 2014

The further one travels, the less one knows.
Lao-Tzu

18 Comments CherryPie on Mar 2nd 2014

A few shots of Nelly’s Moss Lake before we leave the Cragside Estate for our next destination.

14 Comments CherryPie on Mar 1st 2014

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