Barnard Castle
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Oct 1, 2026
KellyHOST
Hope she suffered.
DianeHOST
Next we have Bernard Castle.
KellyHOST
Bernard Castle is a market town named for a ruined medieval castle that it is built around.
KellyHOST
The castle was built in the 12th century and passed down through the Balliol family until Richard Neville became the owner.
KellyHOST
King Richard III inherited it and it fell into ruin after his death.
Matthew MortonGUEST
yeah, yeah.
Matthew MortonGUEST
Funny enough, I went into a prison in Barnard Castle to talk to lifers about exercise and nutrition.
Mark Charlie ValentineHOST
I think I've got time for fucking garden exercises.
Mark Charlie ValentineHOST
How long have you got, mate? 20 years if you've got no butt time.
Carl DonnellyHOST
So where are the
Julian DeaneHOST
gigs? So tonight, Barnard Castle.
Julian DeaneHOST
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Julian DeaneHOST
Dominic Cummings drove here,
Carl DonnellyHOST
didn't he, in lockdown? That was it, yeah.
Carl DonnellyHOST
I've done a gig in Barnard Castle before.
Carl DonnellyHOST
I remember doing a really nice gig there, actually.
Julian DeaneHOST
It's a really lovely area, yeah.
Wilf KemsleyHOST
But then this year, it was an all-English final.
Wilf KemsleyHOST
It was Barnard Castle against Finbar.
Wilf KemsleyHOST
And, you know, have they released the line-up for...
Angus SavageHOST
It's not been released yet, but it will be very similar to last year.
Wilf KemsleyHOST
we're allowed to say yet.
Wilf KemsleyHOST
Because
Angus SavageHOST
even, yeah, an All-English final last year, but Barnard Castle and Finbrough would never play each other.
Angus SavageHOST
That's the northeast of England versus the southeast of England.
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Market towns in Durhamshire: Dunholme, Ayclland, Witchingham, the quick market of Darlington standing betwixt Tees and Wear, Stockton-upon-Tees, Walsingham-upon-Wear almost in the middle way betwixt Stanhope and Ayclland, Hartlepool.
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Castles in Durhamshire: Dunholme, Ayclland, Prudhoe-upon-Tyne, Stockton-upon-Tees, Barnard's Castle, Lumley Castle not far from Chester.
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Abbeys and priories in Durhamshire: Dunholme upon Wear River, Finklehoe upon Wear, a cell of thirteen monks longing to Durham, Wearmouth, Jarrow.
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There was a priory not far from Darlington as I remember about Tees River.
David YellandHOST
You know, that became the story.
David YellandHOST
Uh, Dominic Cummings, you remember him in the Rose Garden in Downing Street 2020, uh, after being seen at Barnard Castle.
David YellandHOST
He said that he, you know, I'm sure everybody at home will know this, you know, he drove, they had driven there in order to test his eyesight because they were gonna drive the long journey back to London.
David YellandHOST
So they'd driven from the family home in Durham to Barnard Castle just to test his eyesight.
David YellandHOST
It's a mistake if your excuse is a bigger story than the first story [laughs] that you're trying, trying to negate.
Farzana BaduelHOST
The problem, David, with these excuses is that years later-
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The chief occasion and the original by likelihood of the manifold pools and lakes in Cheshire was by digging of marl for fattening the barren ground there to bear good corn to the which pits the fall of the waters thereabout and springs hath resorted and besides the ground there being so deeply dyked there may be many springs rising naturally in them.
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There be tokens in Cheshire of divers salt pits beside them that be commonly now used as by Cumbermere in a wood and at the Dirtwich a late a new pit beside the old decayed and at Aldressy a poor village of a six houses a four mile from Malpace in the way almost to Chester much by west hath been a salt pit but now decayed as almost in time out of mind.
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Such fir trees overthrown and covered with bog and marsh as be in Cheshire, Lancashire and Shropshire may be found in some places of the Isle of Oxone.
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Termon is about a twenty-four miles in length and twenty-one in breadth yet the common voice maketh it almost equal in length and breadth.
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Sir Gilbert Talbot, knight, hath a goodly house by Bromsgrove market, called Grafton.
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Pakington hath a very goodly new house of brick, called Hampton Court, a six miles off from Worcester somewhat northward.
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Market towns in Warwickshire: Warwick, Coventry, Henley, I have it described; Monkirkby, I know the site of this; Alcester; Rugby; Tamworth-upon-Anker, I have it described; Nuneaton, I have it described; Atherstone, I have it described; Bremisham, in the way to Chesterwood, a twelve miles from Coventry, I have it described; Southam, a six miles from Warwick.
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Castles in Warwickshire: Warwick; Killingworth; Brawndon, a five miles by north from Coventry, now desolated, sometime, as I heard say, longing to the Lord Mortimer; Brinklow, a five miles by east from Coventry, now desolated, longing sometime, as men say, to the Mortimers; Bagington Castle, now desolated, it longed to the Bagots, a two miles from Coventry; Ashley Castle.
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Castles in Durhamshire.
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Dunholm, Akeland, Prudhoe upon Tyne, Stockton upon Tees, Barnard's Castle, Lumley Castle not far from Chester.
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abbeys and priories in durhamshire dunholm upon weir river finkelow upon weir a cell of thirteen monks longing to durham weirmouth jarrow there was a priory not far from darlington as i remember about tees river the limits of durhamshire tees river tyne river until he receiveth derwent water Earl of Northumbra, Lord of the Honours of Cockermouth and Petworth, Lord Percy, Lucy, Lord Poinings, Fitzpain, Brian.
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Cockermouth came by Lucy, Petworth by gift of a king, Henry I. Fitzpain and Brian's lands came to Poinings, and by Poinings, Air General, all three to Percy.