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KIRKBY-THORE

Volume 11 · 145 words · 1815 Edition

a town of Westmoreland, stands also on the river Eden, north-west of Appleby, 267 miles from London. A horn of a moose deer was found here a few years since, at the depth of four feet from the surface of the earth; and several other antiquities have been dug up or taken out of a well, discovered at the end of the town near the bridge. Below it are the vast ruins of an ancient town, where Roman coins and urns are frequently dug up. The people call it Whely castle, 300 yards in length, and 150 in breadth, with three entrances on each side, with bulwarks before them. At a little distance from thence Roman urns are found, containing bones and ashes. The old military way runs through it, called the Maiden way, because it began at Maiden-castle in Stainmore in Yorkshire, north riding.