Overview
Historic England records Bowes Museum in County Durham as a Grade II registered park or garden, entry 1000728. Grade II marks a designed landscape of special historic interest. The entry therefore identifies the named designed landscape itself as historically important.
History checked 16 August 2026 against the named sources below.
Places near here
- The Bowes Museumattractionunder 0.1 miles
- War memorial to south east of Bowes Museumbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- War memorial to south west of Bowes Museumbuildingunder 0.1 miles
- Boundary Wall to Bowes Museum North, East and South Boundary Wall to Bowes Museum with North Piers and Gatesbuilding0.1 miles
- Children's playground — County Durhamattraction0.1 miles
- Barnard Castle Schoolbuilding0.2 miles
- Barnard Castle Football Clubattraction0.2 miles
- Mapped cemetery — County Durhammemorial0.2 miles
- John Wesley blue plaqueperson0.3 miles
- Hole in the Wall Warehousebuilding0.3 miles
- Low Mill Foundry blue plaqueperson0.3 miles
- Mapped graveyard — County Durhammemorial0.3 miles
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