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Haughton-CaJile, on the weftern banks of North Tyne, fhaded 

 with trees ; remarkable for its ftrength, a neat little bed-chamber 

 being cut out of the walls, holding two or three chairs, a table, 

 with a fire-place ; one fafh-light in it. It has been a large, as 

 well as a ftrong, building ; moft of it now uncovered ; the en- 

 trance by a flight of fleps ; a ftable near it without any timber 

 in the roof, arched with ftone ; alfo a domeflic chapel, now in 

 ruins j belonging formerly to the Swinburns, and the Widdringtons 

 (p) ; and now to Mr. William Smithy Gent. 



We continue our journey down the hill to 



Walwick, i. e. the village on the wall ; which is here iivbeuer 

 prefervation than it is any where through its whole length in 

 Northumberland, except at Wall-Town. The villa belongs chiefly to 

 Thomas Dixon, Efq; whofc feat was lately repaired, with hand- 

 fome additions ; commanding a variety of agreeable profpe<5ls i 

 the caftles of Haughton and Sivinburn, the town of Hexham^ the 

 fine river of North Tyne, the bridge over it at Chollerford y the vil- 

 lages of Humjhaugh and Cholltrton, being in view. 



A little below Wafavick, on the right hand, is 



Wahvick-Chefters, the Roman flation Cilurnwn t garrifoned by the 

 Cohors prima Vangionum ( q '. The ruins are ftill vifible, covering a 

 fpacious area, with a flope to rhe fouth, beautifully diverging to 

 the trout-ilreams of North Tyne. The Romans chofe fuch plcafant 

 fituations whenever they could have them, and the heights only 

 from neceflity. 



(p) Set the Records undtr Swinburn-C.jlli, 

 (q) Horjlt). 



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