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Page 190:-
which is the round Trench, called King Arthur's Table)
stands Penrith before-mentioned.
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Plumpton Park
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Upon the Banks of the little River Peterell, lay
Plompton-Park, a very large Piece of Ground, and formerly
set apart by the Kings of England for the Keeping of Deer
for their own Use and Hunting, with which it was so well stocked
once, that King Edward I. is said to have killed 200 Bucks
in one Day in hunting in this Forest.
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The Grotto
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After the Eden has received the Eimont, it hastens
towards the N. and within half a Mile passes by a Grotto of two
Rooms dug out of a Rock, called Isis Parlish; which Mr.
Camden's Continuator says, was a Place of Strength and
Security; but it seems now only to have been a Lurking-Place for
Robbers, and its Security to have been its Secrecy, the Entry to
it being long and dark, and the Passage, at present, block'd up
with Earth. Leaving this Place, the Current washes several
inconsiderable Villages and Forts, 'till it comes to the two
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Salkelds
Long Meg and Her Daughters
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Salkelds, at the least of which is a Circle of Stones, 77
in Number, each of them 10 Feet high, and before them stands a
single one by itself, which is 15 Feet high; this the common
People call Long Meg, and the rest her Daughters; and
within the Circles are two Heaps of Stones, under which the
People suppose there are dead Bodies buried, which Mr.
Camden thinks very probably; but he supposes that the
great Stones are a Monument to some Victory; but that the
Commentator is of Opinion, that the Heap of Stones in the Middle
of the Monument are no Part of it; but having been gather'd off
the plough'd Lands adjoining, have been thrown together here as
in a waste Corner of the Field; and as to the great Stones, he
says, they seem to be Monuments erected at the solemn Investiture
of some Danish Kings, like Rolrich Stones in
Oxfordshire, those of Kongstolen in Denmark,
and Mooresteen in Sweden. The Eden leads us
next to
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Armathwaite Castle
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Armathwaite-Castle, belonging to the Skeltons, and
then advances to
Corby
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gazetteer links
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-- "Armathwaite Castle" -- Armathwaite Place
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-- "King Arthur's Table" -- Arthur's Round Table
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-- "Isis Parlish" -- Grotto, The
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-- "Plompton Park" -- Inglewood Forest
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-- Long Meg and Her Daughters
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-- "Peterell, River" -- Petteril, River
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