Bastle house at Chesterwood
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Bastle house at Chesterwood by Mike Quinn as part of the Geograph project.
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Bastle house at Chesterwood
Image: © Mike Quinn Taken: 19 Aug 2010
The foundation stones are enormous and the walls are about 3 ft thick; the bastle is currently (August 2010) being painstakingly renovated. It is a Scheduled Monument - see http://www.keystothepast.info/durhamcc/K2P.nsf/K2PDetail?readform&PRN=N7590.
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Image Location
Latitude
54.980435
Longitude
-2.267073