NORTHUMBERLAND. [KELLY's Thirlwall Ia a Township, 4 Miles West-Nonb-West from As Telling the News of Ellangowan'
120 GREENHEAI). NORTHUMBERLAND. [KELLY'S Thirlwall ia a township, 4 miles west-nonb-west from as telling the news of Ellangowan'. death tOlMegIIMerri1e~. Haltwhistle, and extends 5 miles north-east of Greenhead Sir WaIter Scott also relates (in the notes to that book) that station on the Newcastle and Carlisle section of the North Margaret Teasdale, the occupant, abstracted the bullets Eastern railwlltY. Here are the ruins of Thirlwall Castle, from the pistols of "I<'ighting" Charlie Liddesdale, and then -erected at the beginning of the 14th century, on the banks caused three ruffians to pursue and attack him. On the of the river Tipalt ; it is now a gloomy ruin situated amid opposite bank of the Irthing, and in the county of Cumber· ,a group of firs; only a fragment of the struct.ure, built of land, is Gilsland spa, much frequented in the summer, on ashlar obtained from the Roman wall, and indosing dark account of its beautiful scenery and the chalybeate and passages with shouldered headings, is now standing, the sulphur springs issuing from the rocks; there are excellent. south side having fallen into the river in 183I i the interior baths, hotels and lodging houses. The principal landowners is overgrown with moss and rank vegetation; here it is said are the Earl of Carlisle and William Milburn esq. of New· Edward I. slept, September 20, 1306. At Carvoran, castle. The area is 7,788 acres of land and 47 of water; Muth-east from the ruins of the castle, is the site of the rateable value, £6,073 ; the population in 18g1 was 600.
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