“The little valley of the Nent was once a fairyland, and had its flowery meadows, and wild shaws, and bosky breays, and Nentsbury for its capital, till the wealth of mining speculations began to improve and enlarge the narrow stripe of enclosed land that fringed the margins of its chrystal stream…”
— Hodgson in a History of Northumberland, 1840
View towards Cranmore Cottage from the top of the village
