--- In Bearpark@yahoogroups.com, "geordie_gill" <geordie_gill@y...>
wrote:
>
> Don't know if anyone reading this message is a great reader or not.
> My cousin was just been reading a novel by Bernard
> Cornwell 'vagabond' and it goes on about
> The Battle of Nevilles Cross. It mentions the 'priors house'
> at 'Beaurepair'. Isn't that the ruins? I thought it ws intereseting
> someone should write a novel mentioning Bearpark!

Gill

Bearpark also gets a good mention in the book 'Shakespeare My Butt!'

It's a funny book where the author travels around the places in the
North East with more unusual names (amongst other things!)

You can see more about it at www.marsupialelvis.com