Elemore Hall is a mid-18th-century country house, now in use as a residential special school, near Pittington, County Durham, England.
The estate passed from Anderson to Hall and then by marriage to Thomas Conyers MP for Durham City 1702-22.
In about 1700 Elizabeth Conyers, heiress of the estate, married George Baker, also MP for Durham City, of Crook Hall, near Lanchester.
Wilson, the vice chairman of the Northern Coal Divisional Board, said, "The estate was formerly leased by a colliery company to protect themselves against claims for subsidence ...
The defence counsel, Peter Taylor, submitted that, "It is a very odd piece of corporal punishment that doesn't hurt – that is what it is meant to do".