- The Penshaw Monument (officially the Earl of Durham's Monument) is a memorial in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Penshaw Hill in the metropolitan borough of the City...
- Halfway between Newcastle and Durham, the first stone of Penshaw Monument was laid on 28 August 1844 to honour Durham’s very first Earl...
- On Saturday 29 April you can pop into Washington Old Hall for a chat about volunteering opportunities there and at Penshaw Monument.
- I found that the monument was built to commemorate the first Earl of Durham in 1844/5 and given to the NT in 1939.
- The monument stands on Penshaw Hill, the name of which is derived from a mixture of Celtic and Anglo-Saxon words.
- The monument was built between 1844 and 1845 to commemorate John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792-1840)...
- Disaster struck on Easter Monday 1926 when a 15-year-old boy fell to his death from the top of Penshaw Monument.
- Penshaw Monument is the Greek Temple of North East England and an architectural folly managed by the National Trust.
- The monument was erected in 1844 to honour John George Lambton, the first Earl of Durham (1792 -1840).
- Penshaw Monument (which is rarely called by its official name, The Earl of Durham’s Monument) contains a secret spiral staircase in one of its pillars.
