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a hanging bank of wood a large and deep canal ; a fliady, pro- 

 jecting cliff on the other fide. 



Under the hill, a little beyond the 23d mile-ftone, on the left 

 hand, a road branches off to 



Nuntvick (u) t formerly a village, as its name imports, but now 

 the feat of Sir Lancelot Allgood, Km. It belonged to the Herons of 

 Chipchace, and was fold by Sir Harry Heron to Robert Allgood, Efq; 

 whofe only daughter and heir married its pvefcnt owner, foil and 

 heir of Ifaac Allgood, Efq; of Brandon-White-Huiifc, by the rivulet 

 of Bramiflj. Sir Lancelot was high fheriif of Northumberland in 

 1746 ; one of its reprefentativcs in parliament on the death of 

 John Fenwick, of Bywell, Efq; and on the acceilion of his prefent 

 Majefty received the honour of knighthood. His feat at Nun- 

 ivick is of his own erection, after a genteel defign ; of white 

 free-flone, and hewn work. It ftands on a rifing plain, which 

 to the eaft has the appearance of a park. The offices are to the 

 north, a grove to the weft, a grafs-lawn to the ibtith, and a 

 terraced gravel-walk to the eaft, which commands a vie\v of 

 Chipchace at one end, and a variety of profpects on the oilier. 

 Two brooks unite their loquacious ft reams to give beauty u>;d 

 ornament to a neat garden, and render it an entertaining, as well 

 as ufeful recefs ; and thence take their courfe by another grove, 

 on a declining hill, to the fouth front of the houfc, and fall two 

 or three fields below into the river of North Tym. 



In an adjoining field, called, Nw&-eaft-field, were five up- 

 right ftone-pillars, in a circular order; four of them perfect and 



(u) 'Ninvvick. Camden. Bi'fhop Nlcbelfm, 



Nunwitke. Rot. Ar.t;q. ex ip.format. Lance'. /1/^wl, Milit. 



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