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| Tower | Hepple |
Mr Gray | The remains of this ancient castle | |||
| Hepple Castle | Mr Elliott | of West Hepple | Stand on the north side of the | |||
| Hepple Castle | Mr Redpath | river Coquet about 4 miles west from | ||||
| Mackenzies History | Rothbury and near the boundary of | |||||
| of Northumberland | the parish. It stands in a secluded | |||||
| but picturesque situation but over looked | ||||||
| by a broken ascent of bold romantic | ||||||
| heather clad hills rising one above | ||||||
| another. At present it is in the last | ||||||
| stage of dilapidation. "About half | ||||||
| a |
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| a strong and stately tower were still | ||||||
| Standing tolerably entire and which | ||||||
| had probably been the manor house | ||||||
| of the proprietor of Hepple as it | ||||||
| is said the court leet of Hepple | ||||||
| lordship was held in former times | ||||||
| until the castle being ruined | ||||||
| by the Scotts was totally abandoned | ||||||
| by the lord who removed his court | ||||||
| to great Tosson where the | ||||||
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Transcribed by CTW and PW
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