{"id":4906,"date":"2022-06-12T16:54:19","date_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/?p=4906"},"modified":"2022-06-12T16:54:19","modified_gmt":"2022-06-12T15:54:19","slug":"thornton-hall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/2022\/06\/12\/thornton-hall\/","title":{"rendered":"Thornton Hall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of our members met recently for a stroll through the beautiful flower gardens at <a href=\"http:\/\/thorntonhallgardens.co.uk\/\">Thornton Hall<\/a>, near Darlington.\u00a0 Thornton Hall was built around 1550 by Ralph Tailbois, and is one of the oldest buildings in Borough of Darlington.\u00a0 The gardens have been designed and developed by the current owners of the Hall since they arrived in 1989.\u00a0 They started with bare grazing paddocks and have produced a wonderful display of beds full of flowers and shrubs.\u00a0 Only open for a few days each year, a visit here is a real treat.\u00a0 And so was the Afternoon Tea: delicious!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/files\/2022\/06\/Afternoon-Tea-at-Thornton-Hall.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4907\" src=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/files\/2022\/06\/Afternoon-Tea-at-Thornton-Hall-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/files\/2022\/06\/Afternoon-Tea-at-Thornton-Hall-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/sigbi.org\/richmond-and-dales\/files\/2022\/06\/Afternoon-Tea-at-Thornton-Hall.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A group of our members met recently for a stroll through the beautiful flower gardens&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[89],"class_list":["post-4906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-club-news","tag-thornton-hall"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thornton Hall | News | Blog | Events | SI Richmond and Dales<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"SI Richmond and Dales : Blog &amp; News : Thornton Hall : Keep up to date with the latest news, articles and events from the Soroptimists of SI Richmond and Dales . 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