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TJie Irthing 



The Irthing rises in Northumberland a little to 

 the east of Gilsland, and joins the Eden near the 

 hamlet of Newby, about a mile from Warwick. It 

 is one of the best salmon spawning rivers in Cum- 

 berland, and is at times heavily stocked with breed- 

 ing fish in December and January. And here 

 comes in the hardship to the proprietors. They are 

 expected to protect the young of the salmon, but 

 get nothing in return in the way of salmon fishing, 

 It is doubtful whether a salmon was ever caught in 

 the Irthing by fair means. Fish do not run up in 

 the spring, and very few in the autumn till after 

 the close-season. A few sea-trout and herlings 

 are taken with the rod, especially in the Edmund 

 Castle water. It is a nice little trouting stream, 

 and is nearly all, through the kindness of the Earl 

 of Carlisle, in the hands of the Brampton Angling 

 Association. 



J. B. S. 



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