A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
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A vision of Britain through time
A vision of Britain from 1801 to now.
Including maps, statistical trends and historical descriptions.
TILL (The), a river of Northumberland; rising in the centre of the Cheviots; running about 12 miles eastward, to the neighbourhood of Eglingham; running thence, about 20 miles, northward and north-north-westward, past Chillingham, Doddington, and Ford; and falling into the Tweed 3 miles NNE of Cornhill. It is called the Breamish in its upper reaches; and it receives the Glen in the vicinity of Doddington. A huge structure, called Tilmouth Castle, erected about 1820 but never finished, crowns a precipitous bank at the river's mouth. An ancient chapel stood on a meadow there; and. an old legend says that a stone coffin, containing the body of St. Cuthbert, broke away from Old Melrose on the Tweed, and floated down to a landing at that ancient chapel. Sir Walter Scott, in his "Marmion," satirically renders the legend as follows:-
In his stone coffin forth he rides,-
A ponderous bark for river-tides:
Yet light as gossamer it glides
Downward to Tillmouth cell.
(John Marius Wilson, Imperial Gazetteer of England and Wales (1870-72))
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| Feature Description: | "a river" (ADL Feature Type: "rivers") |
| Administrative units: | Northumberland AncC |
| Place names: | THE TILL | TILL | TILL THE |
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