Enjoying retirement
In The Red Rose County
Gawthorpe Hall is an Elizabethan country house on the banks of the River Calder. It was redesigned in the 1850s by Sir Charles Barry, designer of the Houses of Parliament and Pugin his collaborator. The modest Hall houses the North West’s largest collection of portraits on loan from the National Portrait Gallery as well as The Gawthorpe Textiles Collection, a wonderful collection of intricate lace, embroidery and needlework amassed by Miss Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth. It is also the final stop on ‘The Brontë Way’, a long distance route with strong associations with the writings of Charlotte Brontë and the family. On the way back we called at the Aspinall Arms in Mitton and had a drink on the terrace overlooking the river. The inside of the pub is superb too.......
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