rapidly increasing: an excellent maritime
trade is carried on between Maryport, Liverpool, Dublin, and other places.
The village of Ellenborough, from which the late Lord Chief Justice Law
derived his title, is in the vicinity of the town.

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WORKINGTON stands on the south bank of the Derwent. Workington Hall afforded
an asylum to Mary Queen of Scots when she visited the town.

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PENRITH, an ancient market town, containing about 7000 inhabitants, is on the
line of the Preston and Carlisle railway. The ruins of the Castle, supposed
to have been erected by Neville, Earl of Westmoreland, overlook the town from
the west. It is built of the red stone of the district, and has suffered
much from the action of the weather. The court is now used as a farm-yard.
The parish church, dedicated to St. Andrew, is a plain structure of red
stone. There are several ancient monuments within the church; and in the
south windows are portraits of Richard, Duke of York, and Cicely Neville, his
wife, the parents of Edward IV. and Richard III. In the churchyard is a
monument called the "Giant's Grave," said to be the burial-place of Owen
Caesarius, who was "sole king of rocky Cumberland" in the time of Ida. Not
far distant is another memorial, called the "Giant's Thumb." Sir Walter
Scott, on all occasions when he visited Penrith, repaired to the churchyard
to view these remains. The new church, recently built at the foot of the
Beacon Hill, is in the Gothic perpendicular style of architecture. "The
Beacon," a square stone building, is erected on the heights to the north of
the town. "The hill upon which the beacon-tower stands," we are informed by
Mr. Phillips, "is one of those whereon fires were lighted in former times,
when animosities ran high between the English and the Scotch, to give warning
of the approach of an enemy. A fiery chain of communication extended from
the Border, northwards as far as Edinburgh, and southwards into Lancashire.
An Act of the Scottish Parliament was passed, in 1455, to direct that one
bale should signify the approach of the English in any manner; two bales that
they were coming indeed; and four bales that they were unusually strong. Sir
Walter Scott, in his "Lay of the Last Minstrel," has given a vivid
description of the beacons blazing through the gloom like ominous comets, and
startling the night:--

"A score of fires
From height and hill and cliff were seen;
Ea