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Rh Langlee Castle and Haydon Bridge, about 250 square miles. The area of the district is about 250 square miles.

This district includes an area of about 300 square miles, a large proportion of which belongs to the Coal country, and only a small portion at the south-western corner rises above the Lower zone. From the point where the North and South Tyne join and Hexham stands like an old Rhine city on a hill that rises from the south bank of the river, over-topped by the massive grey towers of its church and castle, the distance to the mouth of the river is 30 miles. At Hexham there is a bridge of twelve arches, and the stream is 100 feet above sea-level. The first stream on the south is called the Devil's Water and joins the Tyne at Corbridge. It has two long branches on the west called the Rowley Water and Dipton Burn, and the ridge in the direction of Allendale is distinctly marked, attaining 1200 feet towards the head of the stream and maintaining a height of 600 or 500 feet within a short distance of Hexham. From the last 6 miles, from the foot of Dukesfield Common past Woolley and Dilston, the main branch has its banks wooded almost continuously, and parallel with the Tyne, at a height of above 400 feet, a long