LINOP, a township, joint with Ingram and Greenside-
hill, in the parish of INGRAM, northern division of
COQXFETDALE ward, county of NORTHUMBERLAND, 85
miles (S. S.W.) from Wooler, containing, with Ingram
and Greenside-hill, 74 inhabitants, In this township is
Linop Spout, a cataract, the precipice of which is fortyeight
feet, and the basin seven feet in diameter, and
fifteen feet in depth; it has also the appellation of
Roughting Linn. About three miles to the north-west
are the Cardlaw cairns, some sepulchral monuments of
the earliest inhabitants of the island. In the vicinity
are foundations of an ancient British town, the area
measuring two hundred and forty feet on the north
side, and three hundred and two on the west. A
British road passes near this place, in its course to
Langley ford.