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Penshaw Monument is a folly built in 1844 on Penshaw Hill (pronounced locally as /'pɛn,ʃə/), in former County Durham (now part of Sunderland, Tyne and Wear), North East England, between the towns of Washington and Houghton-le-Spring. It is dedicated to John George Lambton, first Earl of Durham and the first Governor of the Province of Canada.