. The earth and its inhabitants .. . d ironmines. Lead is also raised, but the copper mines appear to have becomeexhausted. The manufactures are comparatively unimportant. Shreusbioy, the capital of the county, is the first town washed by the Severnafter that river has left Wales. In former times it was a place of greatmilitary importance, and the lofty peninsula, almost encircled by the Severn, uponwhich it is seated, was strongly fortified by walls and a Norman castle, of whichthere still exist considerable remains. Perhaps no other town in England is equallyrich in fine mediaeval buildings.
. The earth and its inhabitants .. . d ironmines. Lead is also raised, but the copper mines appear to have becomeexhausted. The manufactures are comparatively unimportant. Shreusbioy, the capital of the county, is the first town washed by the Severnafter that river has left Wales. In former times it was a place of greatmilitary importance, and the lofty peninsula, almost encircled by the Severn, uponwhich it is seated, was strongly fortified by walls and a Norman castle, of whichthere still exist considerable remains. Perhaps no other town in England is equallyrich in fine mediaeval buildings. The market-house dates from the sixteenth 102 THE BRITISH ISLES. century; the Council House is an old mansion, where the court of the WelshMarches was held. St. Marys Church has an octagonal spire and a profusion ofstained glass. Butchers Row is interesting on account of its quaint have been raised in honour of Lord Hill and Lord Clive. Shrewsbury Fig. 56.— the Ordnance Survey Map. Scale 1 : 63, IMile. carries on the manufacture of flannel, agricultural machinery, and linen-weaving,but is essentially an agricultural town. It is famous for its brawn andcakes. Descending the Severn, we soon reach Wroxeter, a village with a Normanchurch, and the ruins of the Roman city of Uriconium, at the foot of the Wrekin. SHEOPSHIRE. 103 Most of the antiquities discovered on this spot have been deposited in the museumof Shrewsbury, but the visitor may still trace part of the old wall, the foundationsof a basilica, and the remains of baths. The Roman city was probably destroyedby the Saxons, in the sixth century, when its defenders were Romanised Britons. Below Wroxeter the Severn enters a narrow gorge, and passes through the coaland iron district of the county. Leaving the ruins of Buikhcas Abbey on our left,we soon reach the iron bridge which joins the town of Ironbridge to that ofBroseley, and is the oldest bridge of the kind in the world, having been e
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