From Gretna Green to Land's End : a literary journey in England . undedby the Severn. As one of the warders of theWelsh border, it was stoutly fortified, andenough of the old wall remains to make apleasant promenade. On the only land ap-proach, an isthmus barely three hundredyards broad, stands the square red keep ofthe castle. The slender spire of St. Marysis a landmark far and wide. St. Alkmunds,with a sister spire, has a tradition thatreaches back to /Ethelfreda, daughter ofAlfred the Great. Old St. Chads, a noblechurch in the days of Henry III, has swayedand sunk into a fragment that serve
From Gretna Green to Land's End : a literary journey in England . undedby the Severn. As one of the warders of theWelsh border, it was stoutly fortified, andenough of the old wall remains to make apleasant promenade. On the only land ap-proach, an isthmus barely three hundredyards broad, stands the square red keep ofthe castle. The slender spire of St. Marysis a landmark far and wide. St. Alkmunds,with a sister spire, has a tradition thatreaches back to /Ethelfreda, daughter ofAlfred the Great. Old St. Chads, a noblechurch in the days of Henry III, has swayedand sunk into a fragment that serves aschapel for the cemetery where some of thefirst Salopian families take their select towered Abbey Church is of venerabledignity, with battered monuments of cross-legged knight and chaliced priest, and ameek, bruised, broken efiSgy supposed torepresent that fiery founder of the abbey,first Earl of Shrewsbury and builder ofthe castle, Roger de Montgomery, secondin command at Hastings to William theConqueror. The first known name of Shrewsbury was232. COUNTIES OF THE SEVERN VALLEY The Delight, and by that name it may wellbe remembered of those who have wanderedthrough Wyle Cop and Butchers Row, pastthe Raven tavern where Farquhar wroteThe Recruiting Officer and the old half-timbered house where Richmond, soon tobe Henry VII, lodged on his way to BosworthField. There are steep streets that, as theproverb has it, go uphill and against theheart, but carven gables and armorial bear-ings and mediaeval barge-boards tempt oneon. There are wild and fierce associations,as that of the Butter Market, where at theHigh Cross poor Prince David of Wales —who must have had nine lives — after beingdragged through the town at a horses tail,was hanged, burned and quartered, butin the main it is a city of gracious Grammar School, an Edward VI founda-tion, which in the seventeenth century boastedfour masters, six hundred scholars, and ahansome library, counts on its roll
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