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Bewcastle
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Blenkinsopp Castle may be looked at in a tour to
Featherstone Castle, reposing amidst rich haughs ennobled
with trees on the South Tyne. Naworth Castle and Lanercost
Priory may also be examined; they lie down the river
Irthing, along the banks of which is a very pleasant bridle
road. And the tourist, who has time and curiosity enough,
will reap no little satisfaction from a ride over the
northern moors, passing Triermain Castle to Bewcastle, where
are the ruins of an ancient castle, within a Roman
encampment, and a very remarkable Runic pillar.
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Brampton
Capon Tree
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From Lanercost or Naworth it is two miles to Brampton, an
irregular-built market-town. Hence to Low Gelt Bridge is two
miles, past the Capon Tree, which has once been a
magnificent oak, now venerable in its decay, and protected
by a belt of beech-trees. The High Sheriff usually met the
Judges of Assize here, where they partook of a luncheon
under its then spreading branches. It deserves a place in
any collection of remarkable forest-trees. To Carlisle the
cavalcade proceeded at full gallop, owing to the insecurity
of the roads, from their contiguity to the Borders. Up the
river Gelt are the Written Rocks: the precipitous face of a
stratum of red freestone has had a Roman inscription,
showing that these quarries have been wrought by this
people, and which is preserved by Horsley, for the
antiquarian will in vain search for it. The walk up this
glen, by the side of the river, through the quarries to
Middle Gelt Bridge,
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gazetteer links
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-- Bewcastle Cross
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-- "Brampton" -- Brampton
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-- "Capon Tree" -- Capon Tree
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-- "Written Rocks" -- Written Rock of Gelt
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