Seaham Hall Hotel

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Information

A small luxury hotel twenty minutes from Newcastle Seaham Hall is the leading luxury hotel and spa destination resort in Northern England. AA Hotel of the Year 2004 this is a place to indulge yourself where service is founded on instinctive hospitality where the food is pure delight and where quality and attention to detail keep us awake at night not you.Linked to the hotel by a magical underground walkway The Serenity Spa is oriental in design and inspired by Feng Shui. Voted Best Spa for Style by The Sunday Times and Best UK Spa Destination by Conde Nast Traveller The Serenity Spa offers over eighty different treatments. Together they provide the indulgence of a luxury boutique hotel and a unique oriental spa resort just twenty minutes from Newcastle fifteen minutes from Durham and three hours from London.

History

Seaham Hall was one of the many properties acquired by Charles William Vane, 3rd Marquess of Londonderry through his second marriage to Lady Frances Anne Vane-Tempest. She was one of the greatest heiress’s of the time. She stood to inherit nearly 65,000 acres (260 km2). The family did not spend much time at this residence but used their Irish house – Mount Stewart, which was more impressive. In 1815 the poet Lord Byron married Anne Isabella Milbanke at Seaham Hall.

Lord George Gordon Byron married Annabella Milbanke, daughter of Sir Ralph Milbanke at Seaham Hall in 1815. He was the most prolific and controversial of the English poets. Aristocrat, rake and revolutionary, he is celebrated as much for his exploits and good looks as he is for his poetry. Byron lived for the life of the senses, declaring as much when he said. “The great object of life is sensation, to feel that we exist – even though in pain”. Author of ‘Childe Harold’s Pilgrimage’ and ‘Don Juan’, he was a literary star of a kind never seen before. ‘The Corsair’ of 1814 sold 10.000 copies in a single day, a feat seldom achieved by a novel, let alone a book of poetry. It still holds the record for a book of poetry sold in such a short time.

The Londonderrys developed one of the County Durham estates into what is now the modern harbour town of Seaham. This town was designed to rival nearby Sunderland. The house was named after this town. The house is now no longer in the family’s hands as it was sold but is now a Health Spa housed in the same building.

Map & Directions

Seaham Hall Hotel
Lord Byrons Walk
Seaham
SR7 7AG

Postcode for Sat Nav: SR7 7AG

Directions

Perched on the edge of the North Sea and surrounded by some of the wildest, most beautiful countryside in the land. Seaham Hall is just three hours from London by train, and a good deal less if you fly. (We’re close to two international airports: Newcastle and Teesside.)

FROM THE SOUTH A1
Take the exit at Junction 62 for the A690 signposted Sunderland. Travel North through Houghton le spring until the roundabout signposted A19. Take the exit for the A19 (Teesside) southband. Come off the A19 at the first exit marked B1404 Seaham. At the traffic lights go straight ahead onto Lord Byron’s Walk. Follow the road for half a mile and go over a level crossing, and then turn right into Seaham Hall Hotel and Serenity Spa Entrance.

FROM THE NORTH A19
Come off the A19 at the B1404 Seaham junction. At the junction turn left into Seaham. At the traffic lights go straight ahead onto Lord Byron’s walk. Follow the road for half a mile and go over a level crossing, and then turn right into Seaham Hall Hotel and Serenity Spa Entrance.

FROM THE SOUTH A19
Come off the A19 at A1018 Sunderland and Ryhope junction. At the roundabout turn right onto the B1285 to Seaham. At the traffic lights turn left onto Lord Byron’s Walk. Follow the road for half a mile and go over a level crossing, and then turn right into Seaham Hall Hotel and Serenity Spa Entrance.

For Events and Conferences:
Do not turn right into the Seaham Hall Hotel and Serenity Spa entrance but continue straight on. At the T junction turn right and the Seaham Hall meeting and events car park is approximately 100m further along to the right.

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