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  Melling church
Hornby, we pass through Melling. The Church is a spacious building of late Gothic, but with a rich Norman doorway. The handsome black marble font was presented by W. Gillison Bell, Esq., whose residence, the Hall, which stands a little to the north, commands an extensive and diversified view upwards of the expanded vale.

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THURLAND CASTLE.

  Thurland Castle
Crossing the Greta, we approach THURLAND CASTLE, in a spacious park. It was built in the reign of Henry IV. and left in ruins by the ravages of the wars of Charles I. It was however, about 30 years ago, judiciously restored; in the process of which the demolition of the hoary gateway is to be lamented. It contains many fine paintings by the ancient masters. Brian Tunstall, 'the stainless,' 'that bold squire,' who fell on Flodden Field, held Thurland Castle and the lordship; and is said to lie buried in Tunstall Church; but Whittaker doubts the latter fact, and assigns the recumbent statue which now lies near the altar rails, and which tradition points out as his effigy, 'with (he says) little diffidence' to Sir Thomas Tunstall, the founder of the Castle.
The Moat remains unto this day - not, indeed, as a defence against external foes - but as a habitat for the
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