Brancepeth Castle, about four miles south-west of Durham, is medieval in origin and owned by the Neville family until the 'rising in the north' in 1569. Purchased in 1796 by William Russell, a wealthy colliery owner and financier from Sunderland, his son Matthew commissioned a substantial reconstruction of the buildings; from the 1820s it was owned by the Hamiltons, who became the viscounts Boyne. During the First World War it was used as a convalescent hospital.

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