Seaham Hall around 1900. The great English poet Lord Byron arrived in 1814 to woo and win the Milbanke’s talented daughter, Anne Isabella. The villagers disliked the morose and moody Byron, too much given to silent walks along the beach to the Featherbed Rock, or westward along the village road later called “Byron's Walk”. The doomed marriage took place not in the Church, but in the upstairs drawing room of Seaham Hall on 2nd February, 1815. Within a year the couple had parted.
