Descriptive Gazetteer Entry for Wentworth Castle

Wentworth Castle, seat, Stainbrough township, Silkstone par., S. div. West-Riding Yorkshire, 3 miles SW. of Barnsley; was built (1730-68) by the second and third earls of Strafford.


(John Bartholomew, Gazetteer of the British Isles (1887))

Linked entities:
Feature Description: "seat"   (ADL Feature Type: "residential sites")
Administrative units: Silkstone CP/AP       Yorkshire AncC
Place: Wentworth Castle

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