Blagdon Hall, Cramlington

Name: Blagdon Hall
Address: Cramlington, United Kingdom

#2 among attractions in Cramlington

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Blagdon Hall is a privately owned English country house near Cramlington in Northumberland. It is a Grade I listed building. The house and estate have been in the ownership of the White Ridley family since 1698. The present Viscount Ridley is the science writer and hereditary peer Matt Ridley. ()

Coordinates: 55°5'15"N, 1°39'49"W

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Cramlington United Kingdom

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Blagdon Hall – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Northumberlandia, Kirkley Hall Zoological Gardens, Ponteland Golf Club, Plessey Woods Country Park.

1.4 miE
Park, Monuments and statues
Northumberlandia, Cramlington
35 min walk • Northumberlandia is a huge land sculpture in the shape of a reclining female figure, which was completed in 2012, near Cramlington, Northumberland, northern England. Made of 1.5 million tonnes of earth from neighbouring Shotton Surface Mine, it is 34 metres high and 400 metres long, set in a 19 hectares public park.
4.1 miW
Zoo
Kirkley Hall Zoological Gardens, Ponteland
104 min walk • Northumberland College Zoo is a zoo located in Ponteland, Northumberland. Based within the 400-acre Kirkley Hall College campus, which is also shared with Kirkley Hall, the site is home to over 200 species and is managed by Northumberland College.
3.8 miSW
55°3'1"N • 1°44'9"W
Ponteland Golf Club, Ponteland
98 min walk • Golf
2.4 miNE
Park
Plessey Woods Country Park, Bedlington
62 min walk • Plessey Woods is a country park situated on the north bank of the River Blyth, in Northumberland. The park is accessed from the A192 in the village of Hartford Bridge, north of Cramlington and south west of Bedlington.
4.8 miW
Forts and castles
Ogle Castle
123 min walk • Ogle Castle is a former fortified manor house at Ogle, near Whalton, Northumberland. It is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade I listed building. After the Norman Conquest in 1066, Humphrey de Hoggell was granted rights over the manor of Ogle.
4.2 miW
Zoo, Garden, Outdoor activities
Kirkley Hall, Ponteland
107 min walk • Kirkley Hall is a 17th-century historic country mansion and Grade II listed building in Northumberland, England. The estate is over 190 acres and adjoins the River Blyth at Kirkley, three miles north of Ponteland in the heart of the Northumberland countryside, which is now a Horticultural and Agricultural training centre.
4.5 miSE
Memorial
Burradon Tower
115 min walk • Burradon Tower is a ruinous tower house at Burradon, North Tyneside, England which is both a Scheduled Ancient Monument and a Grade II listed building.
4 miSW
Tower
Ponteland Castle, Ponteland
103 min walk • Ponteland Castle is a 13th-century stone tower house just off the A696 road in Ponteland, 8 miles north-west of Newcastle upon Tyne, in Northumberland. Founded by William de Valence, part of it was destroyed in a Scottish raid in 1388. In the 17th century it became part of a Jacobean manor house.
3 miSE
Area
Wideopen, Newcastle upon Tyne
78 min walk • Wideopen, also occasionally spelled Wide Open, is a village in the administrative borough of North Tyneside, north of Gosforth and six miles north of Newcastle upon Tyne city centre.
3.6 miSE
Church
Sacred Heart Church
93 min walk • The Sacred Heart Church is a Roman Catholic church and ecclesiastical parish in North Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne. It is part of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. Situated between Wideopen village to the north and Gosforth Park to the south, the church was made a Grade II listed building in 2006.
4.6 miSE
Protected area, Nature, Natural attraction
Gosforth Nature Reserve, Newcastle upon Tyne
118 min walk • Gosforth Nature Reserve is a wildlife haven in Gosforth, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. It includes extensive woodland and wetland habitats and is managed by the Natural History Society of Northumbria.