Shotley Park

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Shotley Park House in 2006.

Shotley Park is a former stately home and estate near the town of Shotley Bridge in County Durham, England. It is a listed building with grade II.[1]

The house was built by Jonathan Richardson, the founder of Shotley Bridge Spa, the driving force in the town’s rapid growth in the mid 19th century.[2] Richardson was also heavily involved in the Derwent Iron Company (later the Consett Iron Company). With the demise of the Derwent Iron Company and financial crisis, Richardson moved to Woodlands Hall (near Knitsley).[3]

The Richardson family sold Shotley Park to the Priestman family in the late 19th century following the death of John Richardson on Christmas Day 1871.[4]

Following wartime use during WW2, the main property fell into institutional use before being gifted to Barnardo's in the 1950s. Since the late 1980s the main building has been used as a residential care home for the elderly.[5]

References
  1. Historic England. "SHOTLEY PARK, County Durham (1067547)". National Heritage List for England. Retrieved 20 October 2018.
  2. "Shotley Spa". 2018-06-22.
  3. O'Donnell, Elizabeth (2003). "Deviating from the Path of Safety: The Rise and Fall of a Nineteenth Century Quaker Meeting". Quaker Studies. 8: 1.
  4. "Jonathan Richardson b. 16 Nov 1802 d. 25 Dec 1871 Woodlands, Shotley Bridge, Consett, County Durham, England: Red1st".
  5. "Shotley Park Residential Home".

Further reading

Thomson, Christopher (2009). Jonathan Richardson: Quaker. Northumberland and Durham Family History Society Journal. Vol. 32:2, p. 54-56

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