Knarsdale

His son Thomas, for services to his country, was created Baron Wallace of Knarsdale.

The family also owned Featherstone Castle, and Hodgson described Knarsdale Hall as having declined in importance — a gentleman's place of the 17th century now and for a long time since occupied by the farmer of the adjoining grounds...

Today, however, the stone buildings on top of a high mound dominate the scene and are strongly built.

The church is dedicated to St Jude, and Hodgson saw it in a ruinous condition, with stone lying about.

There is a fine collection of gravestones and one carried a strange inscription, which Hodgson called 'disgraceful doggerel': All you who please these lines to read It will cause a tender heart to bleed: I murdered was upon the fell, And by a man I knew full well; My bread and butter which he'd lade, I, being harmless, was betrayed.

A man with whom he had a quarrel allegedly left a poisoned wrapped sandwich for him, but there was seemingly no inquest to confirm the accusation.

St Jude's Church, Knarsdale