 | will hutchinson f.a.s. - 1823 - 714 pages
...Esq., and now nearly completed by W. Russell, Esq., his son and heir, the present possessor:-— " Within the works is a spacious area, which you enter...inhabited lie on the south-west side of the area, and ap" pear to have been connected by works of various ages; the " original plan in that part seems to... | |
 | Sir Cuthbert Sharp - Great Britain - 1840 - 478 pages
...and, in 1796 (6 May) it was again sold to William Russell, of Newbottle, esq. for £75,000. Hutchinson says, " within the works is a spacious area, which...have no distinguishing marks, by which a conjecture may be formed as to their age." Pennant describes it to consist of " a large tower now modernised,... | |
 | William Fordyce - Durham (England : County) - 1857 - 730 pages
...castelle comtnith doune a little bek out o' the rokkes and hills not far off. " Hutchinson adds, " Within the works is a spacious area, which you enter...portcullis, and defended by two square towers. The parts now inhabited lie on the south-west side of the area, and appear to have been connected by works... | |
 | Henry James Swallow - 1885 - 372 pages
...the spring of 1883, I was able distinctly to trace the course of the "little mote" above mentioned. " Within the works is a spacious area, which you enter...portcullis, and defended by two square towers. The parts now inhabited lie to the south-west of the area, and appear to have been connected by works of... | |
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Hutchinson, describing the castle as it was in his day, and prior to the late alteration, says, " Within the works is a spacious area, which you enter from the north by a gate with a portcullis, and defended by two square towers. The area is of no regular... 