Landmark
Type
Sunderland
Where
Landmark · Heritage
Good for
Check before you go
Cost
Plan your visit
Opening times
Open access — check locally for facilities
Location
Sunderland
Parent hack
Arrive at opening time in school holidays — you'll beat the queues and the car park.
The Penshaw Monument is a memorial in the style of an ancient Greek temple on Penshaw Hill in the metropolitan borough of the City of Sunderland, North East England. It is located near the village of Penshaw, between the towns of Washington and Houghton-le-Spring in historic County Durham. The monument was built between 1844 and 1845 to commemorate John Lambton, 1st Earl of Durham (1792–1840), Governor-General of British North America and author of the Durham Report on the future governance of the American territories. Owned by the National Trust since 1939, it is a Grade I listed structure.
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