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Parish of Knaresdale Sheet 106 Plan 2

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Knaresdale Forest Knaresdale Forest Revd Henry Morton B.A. About 2 miles W A large district of Knaresdale Common
Knaresdale Forest Mr John Green of Slaggyford it is about three miles long and 3/4 broad,
Knaresdale Forest Mr Simeon Elliot and situated on either and is the loftiest of the mountain range
Knaresdale Forest Hodgson’s History of Northumberland side of Rowantree which separates the Parish of Knaresdale
Part II Vol III Page 90 Cleugh from the County of Cumberland; it is overgrown
Knaresdale Forest Whellan’s Directory Page 591 with heath, & contains marshes and morasses;
Knaresdale Forest Wallis’s History of Northumberland there is not any remains of wall, or other
fence which would have originally encompassed
the park, and on the whole it is a
perfect representation of barrenness & deso-
lation, Hodgson merely mentions
it, and Whellan, & Wallis, only mentions that
it had been stocked with red deer.
Hope Wallace Esqr. Lord of the Manor
Knaresdale Common See NB of 106A Plan 7
Thinhope Burn See NB of 106 100 Plan 16
Thomas Jordan
2nd Corporal Royal Engineers

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