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Extract from the Bishop Auckland Travel Guides:
Eleven miles southwest of Durham city,
BISHOP AUCKLAND
has been the country home of the bishops of Durham since the twelfth century and their official residence for more than a hundred years. Their palace, the gracious
Auckland Castle
(May to mid-July & Sept Fri & Sun 2-5pm; mid-July to Aug Mon-Fri & Sun 2-5pm; 3.50;
), standing in 800-acre grounds, is approached through an imposing gatehouse just off the town's Market Place. The palace has been extensively remodelled since its medieval incarnation, redesigned to satisfy the whims of such occupants as the seventeenth-century Bishop Cosin who r...
read the whole Bishop Auckland Travel Guides...
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