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Title: Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Blackmore, John Carmichael, James Wilson, 1800-1868, ill
Subjects: Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Railroads -- Great Britain
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Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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river Allen with the Tyne. The prospect from the house is extremely fine in every direc-tion : that from the south side of the house looking upon the rocky and precipitous banks ofthe Allen, well clothed with wood, is at once grand and romantic; in short a more delightful si-tuation for a residence can scarcely be found. Ridley Hall is now the seat of John Davidson, Esq.: it takes its name from the Ridleys ofWillimoteswick, a castle now in ruins about 1; mile west of Ridley Hall, and on the same sideof the Tyne, where the celebrated Bishop Ridley was bom, about the commencement of the six-teenth century. Sir M. W. Ridley, Bait, of Blagdon, is a lineal descendant of the above family. A little to the west of Ridley Hall on the right in the view, stands the ancient chapel of Bel-tingham, opposite to which, on the north side of the ruin, is the village of Bardon Mills, wherethe Railway Company have formed a station for the convenience of the district. LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY of ILLINOIS
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ROSE HILL.-GILSLAND. Is situated near to, and on the eastern side of Poltross Burn, which divides the counties ofNorthumberland and Cumberland. The Railway Station House, on the right of the view, is inthe former county, and is distant about 17 miles from Carlisle. The Bridge along which theRailway is carried over Poltross Burn, is 50 feet in height above the level of the water. Abouta furlong below this Bridge the burn joins the River Irthing. Close to the junction is a smallhouse called Mumps Hall, to which Sir Walter Scott, in his novel of Guy Mannering, has givencelebrity : the top of the house is seen in the left of the view. On the eminence above it, a littleto the right, but on the north bank of the Irthing, is Orchard House, the seat of George Shad-forth, Esq. On the west side of the steep and rocky banks of the Irthing, about 11 mile to thenorth of the station-house, are the celebrated sulphur and chalybeate spas of Gilsland. Thespacious hotel, sometimes called the Shaws, is

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