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come a number of other large woods_, to wit, Ulgliam 

 (which no southerner would suppose to be pronounced 

 Ufham !), The Blubbery, etc. The meet of Cresswell 

 or of Seaton Delaval means the coverts in the neigh- 

 bourhood — these, hke most of the Morpeth, being 

 wood-plantations, as against the more frequent whin- 

 coverts of the extreme north. From Morpeth- 

 Quarry-Banks, however, besides the extensive over- 

 grown banks of the Wansbeck, they have Middlemoor 

 Whins (the property of Mr. Lawson of Longhurst 

 and the Duke of Portland) to draw. The Wansbeck, 

 like the greater number of the Northumberland rivers, 

 is prettily wooded for many miles of its length. 

 Below this point are soon found coalpits with their 

 yawning mouths and busy populace. 



In the middle portion of the country are Blagden 

 Park (Sir Matthew White-Eidley's) Benridge, 

 Kirkley Hall, Whalton Village — all of which are 

 meets in turn, for their adjacent coverts (chiefly 

 plantations of inconsiderable size). In the neigh- 

 bourhood of Whalton is a very fine gorse, Edington 

 by name ; and not far from it are Lord Carlisle's 

 woods at Morpeth Common. Another meet is Meldon 

 Park Corner, commonly called Meldon Dyke Nuke — 

 a dyhe being a roughly built wall, without mortar, or 

 of alternate layers of stones and turf, in contradis- 

 tinction to a stonewall, by which is meant a wall built 

 by masons with lime ; a nulze being a corner^ or a 

 bend in a fence. From this fixture the Banks of the 

 Wansbeck, as far up as Hartburn, may be drawn, or 

 else they may go to the woods of Nunriding and on 

 to Pigdon. Further north are Horslev and Lindon,, 



