In 1604 the landowner, Walter Calverley, went insane and murdered some of his children in Calverley Hall.
He settled at Cambo, where he expended considerable sums on improvements to Wallington Hall, which he remodelled in the then fashionable Palladian style to designs by architect Daniel Garrett.
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His wife died on 21 September 1759, and was buried 6 days later at St Nicholas's, Newcastle.
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It was created on 11 November 1711 for Walter Calverley.