Howsham Hall, with Elm Tree

Slide 1: Howsham Hall is a fine specimen of Elizabethan Architecture. It is snugley ensconced above the brink of one of England’s most beautiful rivers, and in one of the most charming portions of the Derwent Valley, suffciently elevated to enjoy the scenery of the lovely vale. Howsham is mentioned in Domesday and there called “Husun” and was a place of high territorial dignity. When the dissolution of the abbeys came, the property was granted to the family of Eure: but it afterwards passed to Thomas Bamburgh, whose son William Bamburgh was knighted in 1603 on the accession of James 1. He was raised to the baronetcy in 1619 and lived till 1623.