Whitworth Hall County Durham, England, UK. Whitworth Hall which stands in Whitworth Hall Country Park, near Spennymoor, County Durham England, is a country house, formerly the home of the Shafto family and now a hotel. It is a listed building. An obelisk stands in the park dedicated to Robert Shafto, it also has a deer park and lake with a folly on it. Robert Shafto was a British politician who sat in the House of Commons between 1760 and 1790. He was the likely subject of a famous North East English folk song and nursery rhyme "Bobby Shafto's Gone to Sea" The tall column obelisk with statue

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Location: Whitworth Hall County Durham, England, UK.
Photo credit: © Alister Firth / Alamy / Afripics
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