What county in England did a brewess that has a song and jig tune bearing her name live in?
Alewife (trade) Alewife, also brewess or brewster, is a historical term for a woman who brewed ale for commercial sale.
Verysdale Verysdale is a part of medieval England which is mentioned in the early ballads of Robin Hood (especially the ballad "A Gest of Robyn Hode", in which a friendly knight, Richard at the Lee, befriends the gallant outlaw and later is revealed as the lord or Earl of Verysdale). Verysdale may be entirely fictional, or it may be based upon a real county with some basis in geographical reality, or it may even have been a term used to refer to a real county. Scholars and historians are divided as to this, as well as the exact supposed location of Verysdale.