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Longtown
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Longtown, near where the Eske and Kirksop
Rivers meet: It is a small Town, the Market of which is kept on
Thursdays; and it is 234 Miles computed, and 315 measured
from London.
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Bowness on Solway
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On the N.W. of Carlisle, there juts out a small
Promontory, at the Point of which is the large Arm of the Sea,
call'd Solway-Frith, or Hunae-Ostium i.e., the
Mouth of the River Eden. It is, at present, the Boundary
between England and Scotland, but anciently between
the Roman Provinces and the Picts. Upon this
Promontory stands
Bulnesse which was the old Town, called by the Romans,
Blatum Bulgium probably from the British Word
Bulch, which signifies Partition or Divorce; or rather
from a Word still in use in those Parts viz. Bulge, which
signifies a Breaking in, as the Sea there doth. From this Place,
as the utmost Limits of the Province of Britain,
Antoninus begins his Itinerary. It is now but a
very small Village, but has a Fort, as a Testimony of its
Antiquity, besides the Tracts of Streets and Pieces of old Walls,
which frequently appear as they are ploughing in the common
Field.
It was anciently the Head Town of a large Manor containing many
Hamlets, as Glaston, Drumburgh, &c. and tho' many of which
are separated from it, yet here still remains the Mother Church.
At a Mile's Distance from hence Northward, begins the famous
Picts Wall: And a little down the Firth is
Drumburgh-Castle, the Seat of Gamel de Brune,
anciently given him by one of the first Barons of Burgh,
soon after the Conquest, but afterwards the Possession of the
Lord Dacre. In the Time of the Romans it was made a
Station, and some will have it to be the Castra
Exploratorum; but the Distances will by no Means allow it.
The Romans had also another Station near this Place,
which, by changing of the Name, is, at present called
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Burgh by Sands
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Burgh upon Sands, a large Barony, taking in all the
neighbouring Lands and Town: It was first bestowed by Ranulph
de Meschines, Lord of Cumberland, upon Robert de
Estrivers, or Trivers, whom he made also chief
Forester in his Forest of Englewood. From him, by
Marriage
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-- "Bulness" -- Bowness-on-Solway
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-- "Burgh upon Sands" -- Burgh by Sands
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-- "Drumburgh Castle" -- Drumburgh Castle
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-- "Mouth of the River Eden" -- Eden Estuary
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-- "Eske, River" -- Esk, River
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-- "Eske, River" -- Liddel Water
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-- "Logtown" -- Longtown
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-- "Solway Frith" -- "Mouth of the River
Eden" -- Solway Firth
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