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| Thief’s Loup | Thief’s Loup | Mr. Geo. Smith (Woodman Ginglepot) | 20 Chains S.W. of | A ledge of very precipitous | ||
| Thief’s Loup | Mr. Wm Bell | Harsondale | rocks, over which I am informed | |||
| Thief’s Loup | Mr. Thomas White | a "Thief" leaped when too | ||||
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| Staward Peel | Staward Peel | Mr. Wm Bell | 28 Chains S.W. of | A small fort |
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| (remains of) | Staward Peel | Mr. Thomas White | Harsondale | year 1386 at present portions of the | ||
| Staward Peel | Mackenzie’s History | East and West walls are in existence | ||||
| Staward Peel | Hodgsons Histy of Northumberland | its situation is peculiarly picturesque | ||||
| being situated on an eminence nearly | ||||||
| surrounded by the River Allen |
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| the banks of which is diversified | ||||||
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| Crags. "Mackenzie’s History" mentions | ||||||
| the following, "This Peel, or Castle was granted in 1386 | ||||||
| by Edward Duke of York, to the Friars Eremites of | ||||||
| Hexham, to be held by the annual payment of five marks. | ||||||
| It was the residence of John Bacon Esqr. Who raised a large | ||||||
| fortune by mining." | ||||||
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Transcribed by KF
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