Crossword-Solution: NETTLY 6 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 9

Coming from Lake Winnipeg they reached Nettly Creek two days after the fight at Seven Oaks, expecting there to get news from the Western levy and Alexander Macdonell.

Only one mile of its course is marked in Old English letters “British Trackway,” and this is apparently not even a path, but a protracted unevenness of the ground, sometimes almost amounting to a ridge or terrace in the grass, for the most part following the hedges, and in one place entering a short, nettly lane.

Where the path crossed the first hedge, a narrow, low embankment went off to the left along the hedge, followed by the path to the church and entering at last an elmy and nettly lane.

Then my road mounted between nettly and elmy banks, and had a bit of waste on the right where chalk had been dug--a pretty tumbled piece, all nettles and gix and white bryony under ash trees.