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WRESSLE:
Geographical and Historical information from the year 1750.

"WRESSLE, (given as "WRESSALL" or "WRESHILL") a parish in the E.R. of Yorkshire, on the Darwent, N. W. of Howden, was the manor and seat of the Piercys Earls of Northumberland, afterwards of the late Ds. of Somerset, and now of the Earl of Egremont; but the castle built by Tho. Piercy Earl of Worcester, which is said to have been one of the neatest buildings N. of Trent, which had a fine octogon study, called Paradise, and a good library, has been long since destroyed."

[Transcribed by Mel Lockie © from
Stephen Whatley's England's Gazetteer, 1750]