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Brandon, County Durham history
Brandon was also a manor of the medieval lordship of Brancepeth. As such was possessed by the Neville family, the Earls of Westmoreland. Holywell, Langley, Littleburn and other such localities were the sites of large freehold gentry houses.
The Northern Rising
After the Northern Rising of 1569, Elizabeth I confiscated Brancepeth Castle and its territories. These were administered as Crown Lands until the 1620s and plundered by a series of courtiers and Royal lessees. In 1628-29 these lands were conveyed to the City of London, when Charles I was forced to redeem his debts to the city. Brandon manor remained in the hands of its London buyer, Edward Cropley, who bought the whole estate for £1,700 in 1630.
William Russell
In 1796 William Russell, a coal owner, retired from mining the Durham Coalfield and spent part of his fortune on buying and restructuring Brancepeth Castle. Russell’s granddaughter married into the Irish peerage, and the name Hamilton-Russell became connected with the district.
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