Swale

Within a mile of Penrith but in Westmorland is a ruin as some suppose of a castle within a flight shot of Loda and as much of Eamont Water standing almost as a mediamnis betwixt them.

The ruines of some called the Round Table and of some Arthur's Castle a mile lower meeteth Loda and Emet at Burgham Castle 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 Castles in Durhamshire Dunholme, Ayclland, Prudhoe-upon-Tyne, Stockton-upon-Tees, Barnard's Castle, Lumley Castle not far from Chester Abbeys and Priories in Durhamshire Dunholme upon Wear river, Finklehoe upon Wear, a cell of thirteen monks longing to Durham, Wearmouth, 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 Derwentwater Earl of Northumbro, Lord of the honours of Cockermouth and Petworth, Lord Percy, Lucy, Lord Poynings, Fitzpayne, Bryan Cockermouth came by Lucy Petworth by gift of a king, Henry the First Fitzpayne and Bryan's lands came to Poynings and by Poyning heir general all three to Percy The Earl of Northumber, castles and manors Cockermouth in Cumberland, a seven hundred lee by year Alnwick, Warkworth Castle, Langley and Prudhoe in Northumberland Rothbury, lordship on Cockett, a seven miles above Alnwick, where is such a town as Corbridge Corbridge lordship, where appear great tokens of buildings by square stones Chatton lordship upon Till, a mile from Chillingham In Yorkshire Seamer, Hunmanby, near Seamer Pocklington market at two miles from Seamer Leconfield, two miles from Beverley Wressle Castle, two miles from Howden market, where the Bishop of Durham hath a fair palace Caton where is a park as is almost of the lordships afore rehearsed Spofford, a great village at two miles from Otley upon Aire river Topcliffe on Swale, a goodly manor house in a park Tadcaster and Healey Lindley by Spofford where Sir Thomas Johnson now is heir He had in Kent a five hundred mark of Poynings lands In South Sax Poynings lordship Petworth Torry Bryan in Somersetshire that Master Kitson bought The Lord Marquis of Exeter had much of his lands in Devonshire He had castles in Wales and was there a great lord marcher Peradventure, Payne Castle by Wye was his, for he bare the name of the Lord Fitzpayne He had some land in Suffolk and Cambridgeshire He had Tallaghtarn, a castle about the mouth of Tay coming from Caermeddin From Caerleul to Burgh on the sands, six miles From Burgh to Workington, twelve miles From Workington to St.

Bees, fourteen From St.

Bees to Furness by the sea coast, fourteen miles From Furness to Lancaster, twelve miles From Lancaster to Preston, twenty miles Esk flu limes et Scottiae et Angliae Lytherde flu it in Escam At Motel Lythel was a moated place of a gentleman called Sir Walter Sealeby the which was killed there and the place destroyed in King Edward the Third when the Scots went to Durham and their king was take by Copland at Durham on a hill thereby where was many Scots buried Bowness is at the point or plain of the river of Eden where is a little poor steeple as a fortlet for a brunt and it is on the hither side of the river of Eden about at eight miles from Caerleul About this Bowness is part of the Pict's wall evidently remaining and it may be supposed that it is called Bowness as who should say the wall ye or point or end Burgh in the sand standeth a mile off from the hither bank of Eden It is a village by the which remain the ruins of a great place now clean desolated where King Edward the First died Burgh standeth from Bowness three miles and four miles or five from Caerleul Burgh longed sometimes to the Morvilles Here was a fifteen years ago the Lord Maxwell sore wounded many slain and drowned in Eden [missing words] At Drumburg the Lord Dacre's father builded upon old ruins a pretty pile for defence of the country Drumburg is almost in the midway betwixt Bowness and Burgh The stones of the Pict's wall were pulled down to build on Burgh for the wall is very near it Netherby is a seven miles north from Caerleul and Esk river runneth on the north side of it There hath been marvellous buildings as appear by ruinous walls and men alive have seen rings and staples in the walls as it had been stays or holes for ships On the one side of it is the bateable ground so that it is as a limes Angliae et Scottiae The ruins be now a three miles at the least from the flowing water of Solway sands The grass groweth now on the ruins of the walls Rockcliffe a pretty pile or castle of the Lord Dacre's over Eden on the farther right about a four mile from Caerleul The town of Cockermouth standeth on the river of Cocker the which thwarteth over the town and Cocker runneth in Derwent hard at the point of the castle of Cockermouth The river of Dargwent after that he cometh to a straight course casteth out an army of his abundant water that maketh a pool or loch called Ooze and afterwards straighteth and at the last cometh into Dargwent and so maketh an isle.

out next to that bin where people are out of water.

Swale barrel.

It's going

to be worth a lot.

Oh, dear.

And then I hung out with Mac for a bit, I moved my car, I went for a sandwich with Swale.

Had a load.

And then came back, 'cause I had an hour to kill.

Yeah.

Look, um, Adelaide Oval's a great place to, to play footy.

And you know that, uh, we do know Swale gets over there with the-

What time's he leaving to get over there? He's not going

wonderful.

Swailing down the hill into a huge pond that we're going to.

we're going to make into a swimming pool.

So we get to do the whole natural swing pool, you know, flow the water through the reeds.

The high moors that form the backbone of England where, to quote Arnold once more, the puff of a child's breath on a still day might send a falling snowflake to the German Ocean, or, if the child turned, to the Atlantic, where, as if to prove his statement, Yorkshire Calder and Lancashire Calder rise almost at the same spot and flow to opposite sides of England.

The same being nearly true, though the sources of these four streams all lie outside of Lancashire, of Wharfe and Ribble, as well as of Lune and Swale.

The great mountain wall that checks the moisture-laden winds that sweep in from the Atlantic and sends their burden of water back over Lancashire in storm and stream, in torrents that pour down its steep face to form the beautiful Lancashire rivers that wind between the hills and across the plains to the sea.

For the western boundary of the county is the sea, and the mountains and the sea, to borrow Mr. Belloc's figure, lean towards one another, making two sides of a triangle that meet above at Morecambe Bay.

By the last quarter of that century, the English of Northumbria had pressed westwards and settled in the beautiful Ribble Valley and elsewhere.

And as we shall see in a later chapter, Cartmel, with all its Britons, was given to St. Cuthbert by Ecgfrith, king of Northumbria, just about the time that monarch had prevailed upon St. Cuthbert to abandon his hermit life and become Bishop of Lindisfarne.

This is the first definite hint of Christian influence in Lancashire, for although the district had already, following on its conquest by Northumbria, passed into the diocese of York, and though we have many traditions to the effect that Paulinus baptized converts in the Ribble, as he is also said to have done in the Swale at Catterick Bridge and elsewhere, yet our only evidence for this is the vague ascription to Paulinus of the famous Saxon crosses at Whalley and at Burnley.

We are sometimes inclined to pass by the weathered, mutilated stumps called crosses with scant respect.