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| The Town Moor | Town Moor | Whellan’s History & Directory | On the North of the | An extensive tract of unenclosed | ||
| Town Moor | Mr Bruce Reid | town of Newcastle | pasture land. The property of the | |||
| Town Moor | Mr Fenwick | on Tyne | freemen of Newcastle on Tyne. | |||
| There is a portion of it amounting to 100 acres | ||||||
| enclosed every 7 years for the purpose of | ||||||
| Cultivation, at the end of which time | ||||||
| the fences are removed & it is opened out | ||||||
| again to the public & another porton | ||||||
| Enclosed instead. The Moor has | ||||||
| no abrupt feature, but gradually rises from all sides towards | ||||||
| its most elevated point, the Cowhill, to the West of the Grand | ||||||
| Stand, where the Cattle fairs are held; And Which includes in the | ||||||
| prospect from its Summit, unimpeded Views over the | ||||||
| South-Eastern parts of Northumberland, and the North-Eastern | ||||||
| portion of Durham, with glimpses of the German Ocean at | ||||||
| high Water. The Great North Road to Edinburgh crosses this | ||||||
| Spacious pasture near its Eastern boundary, the wide and | ||||||
| Well kept Causeway adjoining which is a favourite walk | ||||||
| John McMahon Civil Assistant | ||||||
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