. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . pon the whole the busy hand of industry seemed to bequite slackened. Surely, sir, said I, you are an idle set of people. Sir, said Johnson, we are a city of philosophers; we work with ourheads, and make the boobies of Birmingham work for us with their iiands. 145 (Jt5 CHURCH STRETTON. The railway from Shrewsbury to Hereford lies along the Marches, asthey u»ed to be called, the boundary between England and Wales. Afterpassing two or three stations we reach the little Salopian town
. An illustrated and descriptive guide to the great railways of England and their connections with the Continent . pon the whole the busy hand of industry seemed to bequite slackened. Surely, sir, said I, you are an idle set of people. Sir, said Johnson, we are a city of philosophers; we work with ourheads, and make the boobies of Birmingham work for us with their iiands. 145 (Jt5 CHURCH STRETTON. The railway from Shrewsbury to Hereford lies along the Marches, asthey u»ed to be called, the boundary between England and Wales. Afterpassing two or three stations we reach the little Salopian town of ChurchStretton, situated in a fine rugged hollow between the Long Mynd Hillsand Wenlock Edge. The neighbourhood is beautiful. There is a finerange of hills clothed \vith beauty from foot to peak. The Caradoc Hillsinclude the heights of Ragleath, i,ooo feet high; Hope, Bowdler, andCaradoc, each 1,200 feet high; and the Lawley, 900 feet high. This rangeruns from south-west to north-east, extends across the Severn amid uplandsof inferior height, and terminates near Wellington in the remarkable :,. -;-_■ /v. CllURCH^STRETTOf^l L^s^ elevation called the Wrekin, which is 1,674 feet above the sea, and beingnearly detached from the neighbouring hills, forms a very conspicuousobject. The Wrekin is nine miles south-east of Shrewsbury. The neigh-bourhood of Church Stretton is full of historical and geological attractions,and in the opinion of some only requires to be better known to secure forit a popularity almost equal to that enjoyed by Malvern. Near the towntraces may be found of the old Roman road of Watling Street. It com-menced at Dover and ended at Cardigan; and is said to have derived itsname from the fact that in some parts at least of its course it was formedof large sticks with wattles between them. At Caer Caradoc, which meansthe Hill of Caractacus, in the vicinity of Church Stretton, the remains of aBritish camp may be traced. The London and North Western line whichhas
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