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must frequently have attracted the notice of travellers 

 passing along the northern turnpike, close hy the side 

 of which it grows, about a quarter of a mile to the north of 

 Morpeth. There are, also, other trees exhibiting the 

 same peculiarity of growth on the road between Morpeth 

 and Mitford Castle, upon the banks of the Wansbeck : 

 one of very striking appearance grows a little above the 





bridge nearest to Morpeth, and another, equally so, about 

 a mile above Mitford. In addition, we may mention a 

 line, thriving young Ash, growing in the bottom of a dell 

 about a mile and a half from Morpeth. It rises with a 



