Tookbank

Tookbank was the western stronghold of the Took clan. Isumbras Took, the great Took of the TA 1640ies, had burrowed deep into this ridge line, fortifying it with arrow slits and camouflaged sally ports and murder holes. The Tooks had been in this area for a generation, but Isumbras' continuing quarrels with the Pendle clan to the east and the men of Waymeet and Michh Hollow to the west had led to the construction of this fortification. No men were allowed to come here; such trade as occured between Tooks and non-Hobbits stopped at Whitwell, five miles to the west.