What county in England did a brewess that has a song and jig tune bearing her name live in?
Elsie Marley Elsie Marley (c. 1713–1768) was an alewife (the wife of the landlord, or the licensee of an inn or public house) in Picktree, near Chester-le-Street, County Durham, England. This is close to Harraton Hall, the home of the Lambton family. A song and jig tune bearing her name, popular in her lifetime, are still current locally.
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.