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George Carleton, Bishop of Chichester (1619–28), wrote a life of Richard's descendant the famous Bernard Gilpin, in it he said that Richard “slew a wild boar raging in the neighbouring mountains like the boar of Erymanthus, [3] brought great damage upon the country people, and was as a reward for his services given the manor of Kentmere by the then Baron of Kendal.”
For the wild boar is raging nigh, Bark'd are the trees about Boar-stile, At Underbarrow is his sty, Oh waly sweet St. Mary's Isle! But hark at Kendal rebecks sound, And Bowness Millbecks echo wakes, In Crookebeck ford he felt the wound, In death his burning thirst he slakes. The gallant hero washed his spear, A tear unhidden left his eye,
The earliest cities (Latin: civitas) in Britain were the fortified settlements organised by the Romans as capitals of the Celtic tribes under Roman rule.The British clerics of the early Middle Ages later preserved a traditional list of the "28 Cities" (Old Welsh: cair) which was mentioned in De Excidio Britanniae [c] and Historia Brittonum.
Rothwell was mentioned in the Domesday Book, an 11th-century landholding survey commissioned by King William the Conqueror, as "Rodewelle". [4]One of the royal lodge’s documented owners was John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, who is supposed to have killed the last wild boar in England while hunting nearby; hence, a boar’s head formed part of the arms of the former Rothwell Urban ...
Boar's Den Tumulus Boar's Den, [ 3 ] thought to be a Bronze Age round barrow , is relatively undisturbed and consists of an earth and stone mound 73 yards (67 m) (E/W) by 68 yards (62 m) (N/S) with a maximum height of 8 feet (2.4 m) that suffered some plough damage in the past and is now used only as grazing land.
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Police in Willingboro Township found Kim Beacham-Hanson, 57, dead from multiple blunt injuries allegedly delivered by her daughter, 32-year-old Breanna Beacham.
Using this definition the term "city" is used as a primary urban area, which is distinct from the Office for National Statistics urban area agglomerations, with a total population in excess of 125,000. [3] The population figures are based on the cumulative total population of the constituent wards. This list is not the same as the list of local ...