Hoober Stand Cottage

Hoober Stand, with its base standing 518 feet above sea level, commemorates the quelling of the Jacobite Rebellion in 1745.
It consists of a triangular tower 85 feet high, surmounted by a flat platform with a parapet and a hexagonal domed cupola o...

Needle's Eye

The Needle's Eye stands in Lee Wood and consists of a pyramidal tower surmounted by a stone urn, pierced by a carriageway flanked by stone seats.
Legend says that it was built in response to a wager by the Marquis of Rockingham to drive a horse an...

The Mausoleum

The Mausoleum is architecturally the finest of the monuments built in 1788 in memory of the 2nd Marquis of Rockingham.
Built over a period of three years by ten men, it rises in three sections to a height of 90 feet and was designed by John Carr o...