Identifier: viewsonnewcastle00blac (find matches)
Title: Views on the Newcastle and Carlisle Railway
Year: 1836 (1830s)
Authors: Blackmore, John Carmichael, James Wilson, 1800-1868, ill
Subjects: Newcastle and Carlisle Railway Railroads -- Great Britain
Publisher: (Newcastle, Tyne www.flickr.com/photos/internetarchivebookimages/tags/book...
Contributing Library: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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s of the twocountries were the theatre of the alternate triumph and defeat of both, it shared with suffer-ing fidelity in the fierce contests of its warlike possessors; and even at a later period, whenrebellion reared her bloody standard in the north. Carlisle was at once the witness of crimeand the scene of its punishment. In modern times since law has held its mild dominion in-stead of the ferocious and turbulent supremacy of arms, Carlisle has fast risen into impor-tance as a commercial and manufacturing town; to the increase of its prosperity nothingwill more materially contribute than the formation of the Railway, which affords the meansof an abundant and cheap supply of fuel, &c. Amongst the most recent buildings for manu-facturing purposes, the splendid and capacious Cotton Mill erected by the Messrs. Dixon,(seen in the left of the view,) is the most deserving of notice. The chimney belonging to thisbuilding is about 300 feet in height. LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY of ILLINOIS
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WETHERAL BRIDGE. WETHERAL BRIDGE consists of five semicircular arches of 80 feet span each; the heightto the roadway is about 93 feet from the summer level of the river. This bridge crosses the river Eden a little to the north of the villages of Wetheral andCorby, at the head of a fertile vale, (a commanding view of which is obtained from thebridge,) and where the rocky and steep, but well wooded banks of the Eden commence. From the bridge looking south a most beautiful view is presented. On the right bank of theriver is seen the village of Wetheral, the church, and the remains of Wetheral Priory; oppo-site are the towering woods of Corby, in the midst of which, on the top of the precipice, butscarcely seen through the luxuriant foliage, stands Corbys red castle bosonid high In natures sylvan majesty; the grounds of which have been so long justly celebrated for their delightful walks and en-chanting scenery. LIBRARY OF THE UNIVERSITY of ILLINOIS

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