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Bowes

The ruined Norman castle of Bowes was built on the site of a Roman fort, guarding the approach to Stainmore Pass. In 1838 Charles Dickens visited the village to collect material for Nicholas Nickleby, and noticed a boys’ academy run by William Shaw in the main street. The school became the model for Dotheboys Hall and Shaw was immortalised as Wackford Squeers. Shaw is buried in the churchyard of St Giles’ Church along with George Taylor, Dickens’s inspiration for Smike. “I think,” Dickens later said, “his ghost put Smike into my head upon the spot.”

Available Guidebooks for this region:

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The Hidden Places of Northumberland and Durham

This guidebook offers the reader places to stay, eat and drink as well as interesting places to visit and many main heritage sites. You can read more here.

The Hidden Places of England

This national guidebook covers every county in England offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to visit. You can read more here.

The Country Living Guide to the North East

This guidebook covers Northumberland, Durham, Tyne and Wear and Yorkshire offering places to stay, visit, eat and drink as well as places to shop. You can read more here.

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