Hesket

This was at Hesket Hall, Cumberland, built by the first Sir Wilfrid Lawson, Bart.

The Book of Sun-Dials 1900

And "at Hesket, in Cumberland, yearly on St. Barnabas 'Day, by the highway side under a Thorn tree is kept the court for the whole forest of Englewood."

The plant-lore & garden-craft of Shakespeare Henry Nicholson Ellacombe 1868

And she goes to church every Wednesday and Friday at Hesket.

Sir Harry Hotspur of Humblethwaite Anthony Trollope 1848

But while his father did contract work for fell farmers round Hesket Newmarket in Cumbria with lime-spreaders and threshing machines, Edward, at 14, was on a JCB planting signs on the new M6.

The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

Partly because of his stammer, brought on by a fall through a roof as a lad, and partly because people from Hesket didn't talk too much as a rule, he didn't care to meet strangers.

The Economist: Daily news and views 2011

Believed to be the first co-operatively owned pub in the UK, The Old Crown together with its award-winning microbrewery are firmly in the possession of the villagers of picturesque Hesket Newmarket.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Telegraph Staff 2011

He revealed the whole plot to government, and Hesket on his information was convicted of treason and suffered death.

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

One Hesket, a zealous agent of the Jesuits and popish fugitives, was employed to tamper with the earl, who on one hand undertook that his claim should be supported by powerful succours from abroad, and on the other menaced him with certain and speedy death in case of his rejecting the proposal or betraying its authors.

Memoirs of the Court of Queen Elizabeth Lucy Aikin 1822

Hesket had threatened the earl that, if he did not comply with his suggestion, he should live only a short time.

Lives of the Necromancers William Godwin 1796

But the earl, fearing, as it is said, that this was only a trap to ensnare him, gave information against Hesket to the government, in consequence of which he was apprehended, tried and executed.

Lives of the Necromancers William Godwin 1796