. Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway . from which it is distant about 100yards. Its scite was Garden Ground belonging to T. W. Beaumont, Esq., Lord of the Manorof Hexham, and owner of Hexham Abbey, which as represented in the view stands to thesouth of the Abbey Church, or old Cathedral, the latter being at once the Ornament and boastof Hexham, and a most interesting object from the Antiquity of its structure and the numberof historical recollections associated with it. Hexham has long been celebrated for its Gardensfrom which large quantities of Vegetables and Fruit are sent to Newca
. Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway . from which it is distant about 100yards. Its scite was Garden Ground belonging to T. W. Beaumont, Esq., Lord of the Manorof Hexham, and owner of Hexham Abbey, which as represented in the view stands to thesouth of the Abbey Church, or old Cathedral, the latter being at once the Ornament and boastof Hexham, and a most interesting object from the Antiquity of its structure and the numberof historical recollections associated with it. Hexham has long been celebrated for its Gardensfrom which large quantities of Vegetables and Fruit are sent to Newcastle; and also for itsTanneries and Manufactories of Gloves, &c. Mackenzie in his History of Northumberlandsays if it had the benefit of Water Carriage it is well situated for Trade; this deficiency isnow amply supplied by the Railway, which affords great facilities for the conveyance of Pas-sengers, and the transport of all articles connected with Manufactures and Commerce, Cattleand Agricultural Produce. LIBRARY uNlVERSlTYTon^NO-S . >. GELT BRIDGE. The Oblique Bridge over the River Gelt, Cumberland, is 81 miles east from Carlisle. Itconsists of 3 arches of 30 feet span each. The hne of the face of the Bridge being 27 degreesfrom the right angle of the abutment. The centre arch is for the passage of the water, the sidearches are for passing over two roads communicating with the old Bridge in the Level of the Railway is about 56 feet above the road beneath it. The Valley of the Gelt is thickly and beautifully wooded, and the bed of the River is composedof red sand stone, which in many parts rises in steep and almost perpendicular masses above it,on one of the latter, about lj miles north of the Railway Bridge, is the Roman Inscription, wellknown to Antiquarians and others as The Written Rock of Gelt. It is in the domains of the Right Honourable the Earl of Carlisle, who is owner of the greaterpart of the lands on each side of the Gelt for some miles. Of THE UN
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