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Updated: May 9, 2025
This story of the White Lady is not the only legend of the supernatural with which the old family of Blenkinsopp is connected. Where Tipalt Burn falls into Tyne, stand on the opposite bank the ruins of Bellister Castle. There, many hundred years ago, dwelt a branch of the Blenkinsopps.
Near here the little river Tipalt flows across the line of the Wall on its way southward to join the North Tyne. Passing Wallend, Gap, and Rose Hill, where Gilsland railway station now stands, we follow the Wall to the deep dene of the Poltross Burn, which forms the boundary between Northumberland and Cumberland.
And, perhaps, nowhere are they more common than amongst the crumbling, grass-grown ruins of Northumberland. Away, far up the South Tyne, and up its tributary the Tipalt Burn, close to the boundary of Cumberland, there stands all that is left of an ancient castle, centuries ago the home of an old and once powerful family. The building dates probably from early in the fourteenth century.
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