. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . the ground floor is a small c hapel: anarrow loophole formed the east window, and the sill of the vindow servedas the altar. The next is the Golden Tower, so named from a traditionthat treasure was found here. In the south-east corner of the castle area isScoUands Hall, so called from the Lord of Bedale. It is 72 feet long,and is considered one of the most perfect Norman halls, that form distinctI buildings, that remain. It was probably the banciueting-room of the castle. ;
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . the ground floor is a small c hapel: anarrow loophole formed the east window, and the sill of the vindow servedas the altar. The next is the Golden Tower, so named from a traditionthat treasure was found here. In the south-east corner of the castle area isScoUands Hall, so called from the Lord of Bedale. It is 72 feet long,and is considered one of the most perfect Norman halls, that form distinctI buildings, that remain. It was probably the banciueting-room of the castle. ;^ ■*$^ BARNARD CASTLE. Barnard Castle is fifteen milos from Darlington, and forms a convenientstation for visiting Rokeby and the most interesting parts of Teesdale. SirWalter Scott tells us how the warder at Barnard Castle from his watch-tower high surveyed the deep woods by Brackenburys dungeon tower, Where Tees full many a fathom lowWears with his rage no common foe,Condemned to mine a channelled wayOer solid sheets of marble grey ; and where Many a tributary streamEach from its own dark dell shall gleam. Staindrop, Balder, Greta, • And silver Lune, from Stanmore wild,And fairy Thorsgills murmuring child,And last and least, but loveliest Deepdales slender rill. The tower of Barnard Castle stands on the rocky bank of the Castle was founded by and derives its name from Barnard Baliol, theancestor of the short-lived and unfortunate dynasty of that name, whichsucceeded to the Scottish throne under the patronage of Edward I. andEdward III., and it remained in the possession of his family the greaterpart of two centuries, when it was confiscated. Baliols Tower, shown to theleft in our engraving, is a round tower of great size, and bears marks ofremote antiquity. In the Civil War the fortress was held by Sir HarryVane. The ruins of four courts remain, each separated from the others by moatand wall. On the west side the Castle overlooks the river, above w
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