T H E HISTORY AND TRADITIONS MALLERSTANG FOREST A N D PENDRAGON CASTLE . BY T HE R E V I . W . N C H O L L S (Author of T he Histor y and Traditions of Ra venstonedale E : O H Y O O DE A N S G A T E A N D . MANCHEST R J HN E W D, RIDGEFIELD KI KB Y T PH ! M ar s . E E W zmox : Joh n woo m n hal] C o . L o Hey d Si pki , , R S N J ' Whi s xmm : . Hod son . D L B r aithw BY : . teh ead. P K E aite . A PPL E J J N A i so o i t and E . G ill. S E DBE BG H : a so ons . S m uz Atk n n P ll t , J ck n ldma n HA was : . s o . Wi n 61 S o . J Hi c ck [ ALL mom s m a m a ] THIS WOR K IS B tsptrtfullg E tdicatcd BY PE BM IS S TO N H LORD OTHFIELD, OF HOTHFIELD , D IE E O F ES D LOR L UT NANT W TMORLAN , A N D O F T HE O F S G MANOR MALLER TAN , BY T HE AUTHOR . P R E F A C E . I s t a a m of s s u a H E BE WIT H end for h nother to Eng li h Hi tory . Enco r g ed by the rec eption given to the His to ry and Traditions of Ra vensto ne " of s s I a n u to a dale by the people thi di trict , h ve ve t red c ll their ’ a e n to an ad i i a difier ent no ss i s in in tt ntio jo n ng d le, thoug h le ntere t g “ is A m a f f a s of its o . e has sa h s the e ture h t ry odern writ r id, It o ten n ma d a in a if a is a to s m bee re rke th t Engl nd , ttention c lled o e little, n and s am a s a i its o s w unknow ob cure h let, little re e rch nto rec rd ill r a to as s m of es how a s eve l the toni h ent the inter ted enquirer , in the g e a o as was m of a s o a a s an d long g dece ed, it the ho e g re t hi t ric ch r cter the ” s s m a a to centre of rich historic circumstances. The e word y be pplied M h the a a s in allersta ng Fores t and Pendragon Castle. W en re der be r m a a is not m a m s r o ind th t the d le ore th n five ile in length , he will p bably be surpris ed tha t so much materi al could have been g athered ma a a s s so s . s sa tog ether re pecting ll d le Thi , however, hould be id , that it contains two or three objects of special interest that a river — is s in and s s its wa its m the Eden r e it, pur ue y throug h botto , receiving a s on its as and s s tribut rie e t we t. The Epi copal Chapel is of undoubted]y a a and as of a no w a e rly d te , the C tle Pendr g on , ruin , would be enoug h of ts f to s a c o mm I has i el inve t the d le with un on interes t. t bee n my aim to ai a a as as am f m a and to s obt n ccur te well ple in or tion , pre ent it to a a a and a a f m I am the re der in reli ble ttr ctive or . under deep obli a e to m a s for ff of a s g ti n ny contributor di erent kinds informa tion . Perh p one to m o we m I s . a s who s the who the o t, Mr G. Bl de , conver ed with m e with g rea t interest and animation o n the social life of the inhabi a ts in his a a s not l to a i o f t n e rly d y , did ive he r the del very the first — — . was a a m s a a s m of s a sma lecture He good l o t typic l peci en the t te n . fa m his own a had He r ed l nd . He been born a nd brought up in his o wn a and n of . was s a d le, knew every i ch it He con erv tive in his ideas. did not a for a a ai s and He c re r ilw y tr n , never travelled in them ; he PREFACE . i a on o l a i reg arded them as an nnov tion the go d o d times. T ke h m all in all was an i an d a man of m of an , he ntellig ent reli ble , who the people y d si to dale might ha ve been proud . I e re recog nise the kind help o f a m s who a for m e at s and C non Si p on, took the ch ir the fir t lecture, w s d s a s as an a a o s is all ho e well e erved pr i e rch e log i t in the county. a a ms a also s me s m a a m a a and a C pt in Gri h w ent o e v lu ble teri l , Edw rd . m s of Heelis E s . and to . and , q , the Rev W Tho p on , Sedberg h, the Rev . ar o of a mo and not m ss a of T . Wh t n, St in re, o itting Mi F wcett, The for s and a ass s a I am a . ar e Thr ng , indebted note liter ry i t nce There s a I m t am I m s not m s n other th t igh n e, but u t o it Mr. J . Dicken o , s s and a s of as I a f a a who e preci e cle r recollection the p t h ve ound inv lu ble . s in oa o m a s an The lecture were delivered the B rd School R o , M ller t g , a kindly lent by the School Board on each occ sion . I V. N . a s a M nche ter Ro d, Bury. M ar c h 28 1883 , . C O N T E N T S . 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 c o o . O O O O O O U I 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 . 0 0 O o o c u o l c o t o l o o o o o o o o o 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 0 c o c o o n - b o o o o o o o o o o o c o o o o 0 0 D O . O O O O C Q O O Q Q O O C C O O Q O O Q O O O 0 . L ist of Subsc ribers L EC T UR E I . HERE are few dales in Westmorland more i solated and a no o sequestered than that b f Mallerst ng. In part f it is the botto m of the valley more than half a mile and s no t a of s in breadth, in ome parts th t, with a ridge hill s one a s a to ri ing, on either side, and lmo t perpendicul rly a fo r height of over two thousand feet . This accounts the w ou a dale h phenomenon hich y h ve noticed in your , t at the m wind always blows up or down the valley. From the otion o f the clouds y ou see that it may blo w from the east or the or of west, but to you it is north south . The formation the s of s a grand wall the dale , geologi ts tell us , is mostly c rboni s was ferous lime tone and shale , and that the valley scooped of has a out by the action running water, which e ten down the s two d s of deep into solid cru t, leaving the ri ge Wild ’ on one s a on Boar Fell the hand, and Hugh Se t the other. l we a o s s Cou d , however, tr nsp rt our elve into the dim and far - s s s two s reaching pa t, we hould see tho e ridge ummits - — connected by a table land instead o f what.