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 . and one hundred and forty-seven N. from London. In 1821it contained one thousand and eighty-one houses, and five thousand three hundred andseventy-nine inhabitants, of whom nine hundred and eighty-nine families were employedin various trades. This town was noted in the last century for its excellent market.
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 . and one hundred and forty-seven N. from London. In 1821it contained one thousand and eighty-one houses, and five thousand three hundred andseventy-nine inhabitants, of whom nine hundred and eighty-nine families were employedin various trades. This town was noted in the last century for its excellent market. A newmarket-house was erected in 1763, near the foot of the famous iron bridge of one archthrown over the Severn ; the arch is one hundred feet within the span, and forty feet was cast at Coalbrook Dale, about two miles distant, and was erected in 1780. Theromantic scenery of the winding glen here presents a beautiful appearance. The navigablecanal here communicates with the extensive Ketley iron-works, where one of them isemployed for obtaining fossil, tar, or petrolium, from the condensed smoke of pit church was rebuilt and opened in 1797: it is a handsome edifice. The celebratedMr. Fletcher, Vicar of Madeley, was a man of extraordinary character in his religious. m x. IN ?o <] ^ 9 ® -s -i bs Q N I
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