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	Lumley Castle Hotel, Castle Accommodation in County Durham, England
		Originally a 14th century castle standing four square against the winds, Lumley Castle in England offers a haven of peace and tranquility from the stresses and strains of the outside world.
		Surrounded by beautiful parklands overlooking the River Wear, it is a magnificent monument to a bygone age of chivalry and honour.
		A luxury hotel, Lumley Castle continues to play host to guests from throughout the world.
	www.celticcastles.com /castles/lumleycastle (191 words)

	DURHAM - LoveToKnow Article on DURHAM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		West of a line from Barnard Castle by Wolsingham to the neighborhood of Consett the whole of the land, excepting narrow valleys, lies at elevations exceeding boo ft. This area represents roughly one quarter of the total.
		The hills east of the line from Barnard Castle to Consett are covered with a dry loam, the fertility of which varies with its depth.
		The castle, with the exception of some apartments used by the judges of assize, is appropriated to the uses of Durham University.
	85.1911encyclopedia.org /D/DU/DURHAM.htm (7082 words)

	Lumley Castle - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		--81.111.29.178 16:46, 11 February 2006 (UTC)Lumley Castle is a 14th century courtyard castle at Chester-le-Street in the North of England, near to the city of Durham and a property of the Earl of Scarbrough.
		In 1421 the ownership of the Castle reverted to Sir Ralph Lumley's grandson, Thomas.
		The hotel is where the lady of the manor, Lily Lumley, was reputedly thrown down a well by a pair of priests when she rejected the Catholic church.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Lumley_Castle (401 words)

	Lumley Castle
		She is dressed in fl, figured all over with trees and flying birds; the sleeves of the gown are edged with pearls; she wears a funnily shaped point-lace apron, a ruff of point-lace, and a large, long pearl necklace.
		Sir John Lumley went to the French wars with Henry V. and was killed, with Thomas, Duke of Clarence, in the surprise and defeat of Baugy Bridge, in Anjou.
		The Lumleys are connected with the royal family by the marriage of Sir Thomas, son of George, Lord Lumley, with Elizabeth Plantagenet, a daughter of Edward IV.
	www.mspong.org /picturesque/lumley_castle.html (1326 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| The Earl of Scarbrough
		To ensure the future of Lumley Castle, "Dickon" Scarbrough leased it to a hotel on condition that the annual revenue be used for its upkeep; as a result it is now in a better state than for many generations.
		The earldom was conferred in 1689 on another Richard Lumley, a military man who had discovered the Duke of Monmouth cowering in a ditch covered by ferns at the Battle of Sedgemoor in 1685.
		From 1983 Scarbrough was a trustee of Leeds Castle, to which he lent a painting of Richard II, who had given the castle as a wedding present to Anne of Bohemia.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&targetRule=10&xml=/news/2004/04/17/db1701.xml (967 words)

	Lumley Castle Hotel Luxury Hotel near Durham
		Standing proud for more than 600 years, the magnificent spectacle of Lumley Castle dominates the County Durham landscape.
		Surrounded by beautiful parklands overlooking the River Wear and Durham County Cricket Ground, Lumley Castle is a magnificent monument to a bygone age of chivalry and honour.
		We invite you to experience Lumley Castle Hotel, a unique and inspirational venue; perfect for weddings, conferences, celebrations, dining and leisure breaks.
	www.lumleycastle.com (115 words)

	Lumley Castle Hotel Rate Promise
		Lumley Castle offers our on-line customers a promise that the lowest available rate for your requested stay is published on our web site.
		Lumley Castle will compare the rates net of any taxes, gratuities or any other fees associated with the room rate that a web site may add to the overall inclusive rate for the booking.
		Lumley Castle reserves the right to modify or cancel this Promise at any time at its sole discretion.
	www.lumleycastle.com /accommodation/bestratepromise.htm (674 words)

	Lumley Castle Chester-le-Street, Lumley Castle County Durham, Lumley Castle wedding photography Camera Art Ltd
		Lumley Castle Chester-le-Street, Lumley Castle County Durham, Lumley Castle wedding photography Camera Art Ltd
		When you invest in Camera Art's photography you not only get a photographer, but you also have the use of our graphic designers who will co-operate with you to produce a wedding day album as individual and as special as you are.
		Your wedding day is important as it's your history in the making, let our photographers and designers ensure that your special day at Lumley Castle is there for all to see for many years to come.
	www.cameraart.co.uk /Lumley-Castle.html (325 words)

	BootsnAll.com - Chester-le-Street, North of England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Lumley castle overlooks the ground and is the ancestral home of the Lumley family who had prospered over the years, latterly as mine owners.
		Lambton Castle was the home of the first Earl of Durham, "Radical Jack", the force behind the great Social Reform Act of 1832 and the father of the unified Canadian state.
		The ground is situated by the river Wear, and is overlooked rather charmingly by Lumley Castle, a relatively modern castle in terms of the area (14/15th Cent) (sorry to all you folk from the States but that is modern to us).
	www.bootsnall.com /europetravelguides/aug00chester.shtml (2528 words)

	Newcastle University Library - Special Collections - Exhibitions - Conjurations, Inchantments, and Witchcrafts - ...
		Lumley Castle in Chester-le-Street is supposed to be haunted by a woman they call 'Lily of Lumley'.
		One night, when Sir Ralph was away from the castle, two priests called and tried to lure Lily back into the Catholic fold but she resisted.
		The castle is now a luxury hotel, many guests have claimed to have seen her ghost.
	www.ncl.ac.uk /library/specialcollections/exhibition_conjurations_castles_lumley.php (218 words)

	Lumley Castle Hotel Chester-le-Street County Durham England English
		Lumley Castle was originally a medieval fortified manor house, founded by the Lumley family.
		In 1389 to 1392, Sir Ralph Lumley founded the stone quadrangular castle, when he was granted a licences to crenellate his manor house.
		Lumley Castle is located east of Chester-le-Street, off Ropery Lane.
	www.castleuk.net /castle_lists_north/88/lumleycastle.htm (116 words)

	lumleyarms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Lumley Castle in county Durham is operated to-day as a hotel with accomodations beginning at £105 ($260 Canadian) and ranging up to nearly £300.
		Following the marriage of Robert de Lumley to Lucia Thweng during the reign of Henry II (1307-1327) the Lumleys appear to have adopted the Arms of Baron Thweng, and used three parrots or popinjays (or in one case pigeons) in place of the six martlets in the original Arms of Baron Lumley.
		Lumley (Earl of Scarborough), Argent a fesse gules between three parrots vert, collared of the second.
	www3.sympatico.ca /robert.sewell/lumleyarms.html (987 words)

	Corvus '94 - Lumley Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sir John Vanburgh, the architect of Blenheim Palace, Castle Howard, and Seaton Delaval Hall, altered the basement of the southwest tower.
		The Lily of Lumley was the first wife of the builder of the castle, Sir Ralph, later Lord Lumley.
		They then took a young woman from Lumley village who was very ill to a convent near Finchdale and said that she was Lady Lumley.
	members.aol.com /corvus1994/lum.htm (533 words)

	Ruth and Dave's wedding : Lumley Castle (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The wedding reception was held at Lumley Castle Hotel in Chester-le-Street, County Durham.
		Lumley Castle was built by Sir Ralph Lumley in the late 14th Century and opened as 'No Ordinary Hotel' in 1984.
		There is more information about the hotel and castle on the Lumley Castle website.
	www.geocities.com /ruthanddave/lumley.html (125 words)

	Earl of Scarbrough - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The title Earl of Scarbrough was created for Richard Lumley, 2nd Viscount Lumley, in 1692.
		The subsidiary titles held by Lord Scarbrough are: Viscount Lumley, of Waterford (created 1628), Viscount Lumley, of Lumley Castle in the County of Durham (1689), and Baron Lumley, of Lumley Castle in the County of Durham (1681).
		Richard Osbert Lumley, 13th Earl of Scarbrough (b.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Earl_of_Scarbrough (195 words)

	CHESTER-LE-STREET - LoveToKnow Article on CHESTER-LE-STREET (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The parish church of St Mary and St Cuthbert is an interesting building, formerly collegiate, with a tower 156 ft. high, and a remarkable series of monumental tom,bs of the Lumley family, collected here from Durham cathedral and various ruined monasteries, and in some cases remade.
		along the river is Lumley Castle, the seat of the earl of Scarborough, and about 2 m.
		north lies Lambton Castle, the residence of the earl of Durham, built in 797 on the site of the old House of Harraton..
	www.1911ency.org /C/CH/CHESTER_LE_STREET.htm (191 words)

	Spirited Australia come back to haunt England (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Perhaps it was the ghosts of Lumley Castle who finally shocked the Australians from the depths of their slumber.
		She said she saw white figures trooping around Lumley Castle one night, while all rounder Shane Watson was so unnerved that he refused to sleep alone and joined Lee in his room.
		According to local folklore, the hotel is home to the ghost of Lily Lumley, a 14th-century aristocrat thrown down a well by Catholic priests for rejecting their faith.
	www.rediff.com /cricket/2005/jun/24aus1.htm (623 words)

	Lumley Castle, County Durham (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		The Castle was confiscated and not returned to his son until 1404.
		In 1690 a later Sir Richard Lumley became Earl of Scarborough and Lumley Castle was turned into a sumptuous mansion.
		The Earls moved out around 1800 and the Castle stood empty and decaying until around 1904 when it was occupied part-time by the countess of Scarborough.
	www.r-l-p.co.uk /lumley.html (288 words)

	Chester-le-Street and Washington History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Liulf was killed in the eleventh century by one of William Walcher's men in an incident that led to that Bishop's murder at Gateshead in 1081.
		Lumley Castle, which dominates the countryside across the River Wear, to the east of Chester le Street, was for centuries the seat of the Lumley family.
		Today Lumley castle, situated by a pretty wooded valley adjoining the River Wear, is a hotel and restaraunt where popular `Elizabethan Banquets' are held.
	www.thenortheast.fsnet.co.uk /Chester-le-StreetandWashington.htm (2901 words)

	BBC SPORT \| Cricket \| Test Match Special \| TMS Riverside diary: Day one
		To cut a long story short, she was killed and thrown down the castle well in the 14th century and rises up once in a while.
		Tales of headless horsemen in a tunnel from Lumley Castle to Finchale Abbey reveal that nobody has survived travelling from one end to t'other.
		The team are keeping their eyes peeled, although the only "wayward maiden" the Bearded Wonder claims to have seen was Douglas Hondo's fourth over of the day which included a no-ball and a wide.
	news.bbc.co.uk /sport2/hi/cricket/test_match_special/2961856.stm (594 words)

	LUMLEY CASTLE
		Lumley Castle is a magnificent castle situated near Chester-le-Street in County Durham.
		It was built in 1392 as a manor house and was later converted by Sir Ralph Lumley to the castle that can be seen today.
		In 1972 the Earl of Lumley enlisted the 'No Ordinary Hotels' group' and they are the new tenants of the Castle.
	www.burkes-peerage.net /sites/common/sitepages/calumley.asp (274 words)

	Rotherhamweb: About the Earls of Scarborough
		Richard Lumley, 2nd Viscount Lumley (1650-1721) (became Earl of Scarborough in 1692) Lord Lumley was a famous convert from Catholicism to Protestantism; he received the title "Viscount Lumley" from the Prince of Orange in 1689 and the title "Earl of Scarborough" in 1690.
		His father, the 11th earl, was Lord Chamberlain to the Queen from the beginning of her reign in 1952 until 1963, and for many years Lord Lieutenant of the old West Riding, and his mother, Katharine, served the Queen Mother as a Lady-in-Waiting.
		The Countess served the Queen Mother as a Lady of the Bedchamber from 1994 until 2002, and was appointed LVO in 2002.
	www.rotherhamweb.co.uk /h/earlofsc.htm (849 words)

	HyltonReunionItinerary2004
		A guided tour of the Castle and an explanation of the fascinating heraldry carved in stone on the front of the castle walls.
		Your chance to visit the ruins of St Katherine's chapel, next to the castle where many of the Barons of Hylton are thought to lie buried.
		Time to reflect on marvellous achievements of this proud family whilst enjoying a stroll through the two hundred acres of inner city parkland that still surrounds the castle, now a wildlife protected site, which is a legacy to the people of Hylton from the Barons of long ago.
	www.ancestryuk.com /HyltonReunionItinerary2004.htm (892 words)

	Keys To The Past, Ref No D2154
		The courtyard is entered by a vaulted passage on the east side.
		The castle as changed little since it was built in the 14th century.
		The only major alterations have been the replacement of the medieval windows with some of 16th and 18th century date.
	www.keystothepast.info /durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=D2154 (234 words)

	ghosts, hauntings and legends of county durham - from the paranormal database
		Further Comments: Though the castle is long gone, the area is still a place where fairies hide - anyone trying to steal earth or soil from the land is warned off by whispering voices.
		Further Comments: The 'Lily Of Lumley', as the lady is also known, was killed by several monks after refusing to agree with their religious beliefs.
		The monks are sometimes seen walking in file around the area of the castle, while Lady Lumley walks within the castle's corridors and grounds.
	www.paranormaldatabase.com /durham/durhdata.php (1013 words)

	SINE Search Results
		Landscape view of the castle from the west.
		Landscape view of the castle from the south.
		Landscape engraving of Lumley Castle and its formal grounds.
	sine.ncl.ac.uk /retrieve_results.asp?si=185 (178 words)

	Ruth and Dave's wedding : Wedding List
		Lumley Castle boasts 25 golf courses in its vicinity, inlcuding one at the Castle itself.
		If you would like to play on Saturday, e-mail me, Kathy Byrne (Ruth's sister) at byrnekj@hotmail.com and I'll try and arrange some tee times at the Lumley Castle course.
		Perched high on the steep bank of the River Tees, the extensive remains of Barnard Castle with its splendid round tower dates back to the 12th and 13th centuries.
	www.geocities.com /ruthanddave/golf.html (798 words)

	Lumley Castle Hotel, Chester Le Street, United Kingdom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		A 14th-century castle in a magnificent setting not far from Durham, converted into a luxury hotel but retaining its historic charm, with lovely bedrooms and an elegant restaurant serving superb food.
		Lumley Castle was built in 1389 as a manor house and then converted into a castle in 1392.
		If you want to sample the ultimate in luxury, then the King James Suite with its antique furnishings, reception room, Jacuzzi and 6-metre-high four-poster bed is not to be missed.The elegant setting and superb food in the Black Knight restaurant make it a popular venue.
	www.opodo.co.uk /Jsp/opodo/StrutsServlet/HotelDetailsView?returnAction=HotelSearchResultsView&Int_Id=HJ_20~RES1~DETS&chainCode=BW&hotelCode=101133&Int_Id=00251199002 (349 words)

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