The Thorpe, Surrey houses
Around 1774 Sir Edward Blackett, 4th Bt., came to live for part of the year at Thorpe Lea House,
Grey Friars/Anderson Place and Blackett Street, Newcastle
Anderson Place, Newcastle upon Tyne, situated within the city walls near the ruins of a Franciscan Friary, was built in the 16th century by Robert Anderson, and was also subsequently known as Newe House and then Grey Friars.
Helmington Hall
Situated on the outskirts of Hunwick, near Bishop Auckland, Co. Durham, it was described by Brigadier General H. Conyers Surtees in his “Parish Histories” 1923 [i] as follows:
Sockburn Hall
Situated in a beautiful location on the north side of a loop of the River Tees, near Darlington, Sockburn Hall has extensive grounds in which part of a pre-Norman Chapel still stands.
Peover Hall
In 1725, five years after Diana Blackett became mistress of Bretton Hall, her first cousin 1 x removed, also Diana Blackett, (1704-1737), daughter of William Blackett and grand-daughter of
The new way of courting connected with Bretton Hall by Jimmy Mann
At Bretton Hall near Wakefield, known so well,
Sir William Wentworth Blackett did once dwell:
That mansion was his home; there with his bride,
In pomp and splendour, he once did reside
Yet, in the midst of all that he possessed,
A rambling mind disturbed Sir William’s breast;
His lady and his home he left behind,
Says he, “The end of this wide world I’ll find;
The Earth’s extensive, but you may depend on’t,
Before ere I return I’ll find the end on’t.”
So he embarked on board a ship, we find,