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    Bewcastle is a large civil parish in the Cumberland unitary authority area of Cumbria, England. It is in the historic county of Cumberland. According...
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    The Bewcastle Cross is an Anglo-Saxon cross which is still in its original position within the churchyard of St Cuthbert's church at Bewcastle, in the...
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  • Bewcastle is a civil parish in the Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. It contains 20 listed buildings that are recorded in the National Heritage List...
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    Bewcastle Castle is a ruined castle in the parish of Bewcastle in the English county of Cumbria, a few miles from the Scottish border. The first castle...
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    Bewcastle Roman Fort was built to the north of Hadrian's Wall as an outpost fort possibly intended for scouting and intelligence.[citation needed] The...
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    Musgrave, Captain of Bewcastle was an English landowner and soldier involved in Scottish border politics. He was keeper of Bewcastle Castle for Elizabeth...
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    the early crosses surviving in good condition, whether at Ruthwell and Bewcastle, the Western Ossory group in Ireland, Iona or the Kildalton Cross on Islay...
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    tide dial is on the 7th- or 8th-century Bewcastle Cross in the church graveyard of St Cuthbert's in Bewcastle, Cumbria. It is carved on the south face...
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    poetry. It has been described by Nikolaus Pevsner thus: "The crosses of Bewcastle and Ruthwell ... are the greatest achievement of their date in the whole...
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    Beckermet, Beckfoot, Beckside Beetham, Belah, Belle Vue, Berrier, Bewaldeth Bewcastle Biggar, Biglands, Bigrigg Birkby, Birkerthwaite Black Combe, Blackbeck...
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    and Mediterranean decoration, notably vine-scroll. The Ruthwell Cross, Bewcastle Cross and Easby Cross are leading Northumbrian examples of the Anglo-Saxon...
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    his human nature with Mary Magdalene drying his feet. the Anglo-Saxon Bewcastle Cross, a very similar depiction to the Ruthwell Cross. the late Carolingian...
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    several collaborations. She runs an Arts Centre called Stones Barn, in Bewcastle, in Cumbria, which offers residential courses. Born in Blackpool, Prior...
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    chronologically between the Bewcastle Cross and the Gosforth cross and has greater affinity with the earlier Anglo-Roman style of Bewcastle. The west face has...
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    many villages and towns including Dalston, Brampton, Longtown, Wetheral, Bewcastle and Scotby. Cumberland Council, the local authority for Cumberland, is...
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    needed] The oldest sundial in England is a tide dial incorporated into the Bewcastle Cross, Cumbria, and dates from the 7th or early 8th century. Since the...
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    manuscripts, and epigraphically on the Ruthwell Cross and probably on the Bewcastle Cross. The unnamed ᛤ rune only appears on the Ruthwell Cross, where it...
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    he chooses to die. 190 Jamie Telfer of the Fair Dodhead The Captain of Bewcastle raids Fair Dodhead, stealing Jamie's herd of ten cows. In desperation...
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  • identified with Bewcastle. There are dedications to Cocidius around Hadrian's Wall and Cumbria, including the forts at Birdoswald and Bewcastle. Another inscription...
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    include: Habitancum (Risingham) Bremenium (High Rochester) Fanum Cocidi (Bewcastle) (north of Birdoswald) Ad Fines (Chew Green) Supply forts behind the wall...
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    metalwork. It can be seen in and sculpture, such as the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross. The devastating Viking raid on Lindisfarne in 793 marked the beginning...
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    Arthuret Included townships of Braconhill, Lineside, Longtown, Netherby Bewcastle Brampton Castlecarrock Crosby High & Low Cumrew Outside and Inside Cumwhitton...
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    The river is formed near the hamlet of Stapleton, five miles west of Bewcastle, by the confluence of the Black Lyne (moving from the north) and the White...
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    figurative sculpture of considerable quality, as on the Ruthwell Cross and Bewcastle Cross (both probably around 800). Vine-scroll decoration and interlace...
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  • Academy (formerly Big Wood School)' is a secondary school located on Bewcastle Road, Warren Hill, Nottingham, England. It is for 11- to 16-year-olds...
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  • character in J. K. Rowling's Harry Potter series Wulfric Bedwyn, Duke of Bewcastle, in Mary Balogh's Slightly series Wulfric, one of the main characters...
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    Blackpool Gate is a settlement in the civil parish of Bewcastle, which is in the district of the City of Carlisle in the county of Cumbria, England. It...
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    PSC. "Beetham Hall" Archived 2012-10-09 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Bewcastle Castle" Archived 2012-10-06 at the Wayback Machine PSC. "Bewley Castle"...
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    churchyard are a mausoleum of Sara Losh's sister, Katharine, and a copy of the Bewcastle Cross. St Mary's replaces an earlier parish church in Wreay. Losh funded...
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    customary lands and hereditaments, parcel of Nicol Forest, Solport and Bewcastle manors (Cumberland) directed to be settled to certain uses. 32 Geo. 2...
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