Old Nannie Alnwick Recounts (Northumberland)

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harehope hill

Brinkburn and Harehope Hill too they frequented. Old Nannie Alnwick, the widow of the last of the ancient race of Alnwick, the tanners, had faith in the good folk, and set aside for them ‘a loake of meal and a pat of butter,’ receiving, as she said, a double return from them ; and often had she seen them enter into Harehope Hill, and heard their pipe music die away as the green hill closed over them. (Denham 143)

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