Picturesque views and description of cities, towns, castles, mansions, and other objects of interesting feature, in Shropshire, from original designs, taken expressly for this work, by MrFrederick Calvert, engraved on steel by MrTRadclyffe, with historical and topographical illustrations . OF SHROPSHIRE. 131 Aplev Park and Mansion, near Bridgenorth, the seat of Hiomas Whitmore, Esq.—This splendid modern mansion has been erected at an immense expense by its present owneron the siteof the old hall. Its turretted front, with massive embattled towers at each end,and Gothic-windowed chapel, surmoun
Picturesque views and description of cities, towns, castles, mansions, and other objects of interesting feature, in Shropshire, from original designs, taken expressly for this work, by MrFrederick Calvert, engraved on steel by MrTRadclyffe, with historical and topographical illustrations . OF SHROPSHIRE. 131 Aplev Park and Mansion, near Bridgenorth, the seat of Hiomas Whitmore, Esq.—This splendid modern mansion has been erected at an immense expense by its present owneron the siteof the old hall. Its turretted front, with massive embattled towers at each end,and Gothic-windowed chapel, surmounted with a cross, in the back-ground, producesa fine effect, and the views from that beautiful and picturesque part of this domain, calledthe Terrace, are the admiration of all travellers. The highly-respected family of the Whitmores have resided in this Lordship, of the samename, for several centuries. Pitchford Hall, the seat of the Hon. Charles Cecil Cope Jenkinson.—This ancientand romantic seat presents, in the highest state of preservation, a fine specimen of thehalf timber-fronted houses of the Elizabethan character; it is delightfully circumstancedwith regard to the surrounding scenery of wood and water, and is situate within threemiles of Ludlow, a part of the County ab
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