- We had an amazing time on Wednesday visiting Gawthorpe Hall. It was their first time on a school trip and they behaved very well.
- The Hall's beautiful interiors show life as it was in the Victorian era for the Kay-Shuttleworth family who resided at Gawthorpe for almost 400 years.
- The house has close association with the 17th-century trial of the Pendle Witches. Gawthorpe Hall is financed and run by Lancashire County Council.
- Gawthorpe Hall, along with Towneley Hall, Shuttleworth Hall and Queen Street Mill, all in Burnley, are listed by English Heritage as Grade 1, the highest listing.
- House & Family History: Gawthorpe resembles Bess of Hardwick's great house of Hardwick Hall in Derbyshire and may very well have been designed by the...
- Tucked away on the bank of the River Calder in the shadow of Pendle Hill, Gawthorpe Hall is a fantastic Jacobean Hall with a rich history.
- A visit to the grounds of Gawthorpe Hall, a Jacobean mansion in the old Lancashire textile town of Padiham. Filmed 10 Oct 2016.
- Gawthorpe Hall was built between 1600 and 1605 for the Shuttleworth family, who by then had been at Gawthorpe for over 200 years.
- For more information, visit the National Trust website: https://www.nationaltrust.org.uk/gawthorpe-hall.
- Gawthorpe Hall’s redesign in the 1850’s was by Sir Charles Barry, designer of the Houses of Parliament and the ‘real’ Downton Abbey, Highclere Castle in Berkshire.