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LAKELAND AND THE BORDERS OF LONG AGO

by Walter T. McIntire

Published by Charles Thurnam & Sons. Circa. 1948

Almost very good condition in a good dustwrapper. Green cloth with gilt title to spine.

Browning and some spotting to covers. Foxing to endpapers and outer page edges. Wrapper is creased and torn, especially to rear panel, with pieces of loss; scuffed.

Stock no. 2135702

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Contents

  • Part I - Carlisle and the Border
  • Chapter
  • 1 The Roman Wall
  • 2 Roman Carlisle
  • 3 Medieval Carlisle
  • 4 Elizabethan Carlisle
  • 5 The Kinmont Willie of History
  • 6 The Border in Peace and War
  • Part II - Kings and Queens in Cumberland
  • 7 the early Plantagenet Edwards
  • 8 middle age visits
  • 9 three Stuarts
  • Part III - Lake District Sketches
  • 10 The Tarns, Passes, and Mountain Names
  • 11 The Dalesmen in the Old Days
  • 12 Some Old Lakeland Hostelries
  • 13 The Eagle, The Wolf, and the Yew Tree
  • 14 Ancient Fisheries
  • Part IV - Old Days, Old Days, Old Things, and Old Ways
  • 15 Old Customs
  • 16 Rhymes, Proverbs, and old Family Traditions
  • 17 Men and Monuments
  • 18 Dove Cots, Old Bridges, and Vanished Churches
  • 19 Beacons, Poaching, and Piracy
  • The Ballad of Kinmont Willie

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