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- adjoining parish of Orton, an iron chain went across the road, 
which was locked every night, and was called Barras Gate. 
Next there is the venerable oak now the property of John 
_ Richardson, Esq.; a tree that induced the Blamires to change 
the name of their homestead in 1790 from Hollin Bush to The 
Oaks, on the same day that the venerable Paley christened their 
son William—of future fame as one of the foremost statesmen of 
Cumberland. The tree at The Oaks is about three feet from the 
ground, and nineteen feet in girth. By the road side, between 
Hawksdale and Rose Castle, is a fine old gnarled oak, twenty-one 
feet in circumference. 
At Armathwaite Castle, John Thomlinson, Esq. informs me 
there are some very fine old trees ; one in particular, whose history 
is apparently lost; but it is a magnificent oak, carefully, and very 
cleverly, bound with iron hoops or bands, and is well worthy the 
attention of this Society when they visit Armathwaite. 
On the margin of Wragmire Moss there stood, till 1823, a 
a well known oak, said to be the last tree of Inglewood Forest, 
which had survived the blasts of seven or eight hundred years. 
This time-honoured tree was remarkable, not only for the beauty 
of its wood, but for being the boundary mark between the respective 
Manors of the Duke of Devonshire and the Dean and Chapter of 
_ Carlisle; as also between the parishes of Hesket and St. Cuthbert’s, 
Carlisle ; and as such was noticed for upwards of six hundred 
years.* Mr. Jefferson says it fell, not by the tempest or by the axe, 
but from sheer old age. This happened on the 13th June, 1823. 
_ He goes on to say that—“ under its spreading branches may have 
reposed the victorious Edward the First; and perhaps, at a later 
period, John de Corbrig, the poor hermit of Wragmire, may have 
counted his beads beneath its shade. 
From the almost universal opinion that the Wragmire Oak 
_ was the last tree that remained of the once famous Forest of Ingle- 
wood, I beg strongly to dissent. There are here in the Rose 
holms three trees, magnificent ruins of what, centuries ago, must 
have been fine members of the sylvan family. And if we believe 
that 
* Jefferson’s Leath Ward. 
