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COQUET (pronounced C6cket)

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Originally appearing in Volume V07, Page 130 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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COQUET (pronounced C6cket)  , a
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river of Northumberland, draining a beautiful valley about 40 M. in length . It rises in the Cheviot Hills . Following a course generally easterly, but greatly winding, it passes Harbottle, near which relics of the Stone Age are seen, and
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Holystone, where it is recorded that Bishop Paulinus baptized a
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great
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body of Northumbrians in the
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year 627 . Several earthworks
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crown hills above this
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part of the valley. and at Cartington, Fosson and Whitton are relics of
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medieval border fortifications . The small
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town of Rothbury is beautifully situated beneath the rugged Simonside Hills . The river dashes through a narrow gully called the Thrum, and then passes Brink-burn priory, of which the
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fine Transitional Norman church was restored to use in 18'58, while there are fragments of the monastic buildings . This was an Augustinian foundation of the time of Henry I . The dale continues well wooded and very beautiful until
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Warkworth is reached, with its fine castle and remarkable hermitage . A short distance below this the Coquet has its mouth in
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Alnwick
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Bay (North Sea), with the small
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port of Amble on the south
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bank, and Coquet Island a mile out to sea . The river is frequented by sportsmen for salmon and trout fishing No important tributary is received, and the drainage
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area does not exceed 240 sq. m .

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