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LXXIII. LONDON TO SHREWSBURY THROUGH AYLESBURY, KIDDERMINSTER, AND MUCH-WENLOCK, 1601 Miles.

ON RIGHT FROM LOND.

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Shrews.

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London.

ON LEFT FROM LOND.

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From Tyburn Turnpike to Uxbridge. Middlesex (see p. 188.) 15 Across river Coln, and enter Bucks. Chalfont, St Giles's, remarkable as having been the residence of Milton while the plague raged in London, in 1655. Here he finished Paradise Lost. AMERSHAM.

is an ancient town, which manufactures large quantities of black lace and cotton. It has a spacious jchurch, containing several monuments, and a townhall, built, in 1642, by Sir W. Drake. Pop. 1851, 2093.

Great Missenden was the seat of a rich Abbey. Part of the cloisters still remain.

WENDOVER.

The inhabitants sre supported by lace making. It formerly returned 2 M.P. The Chiltern Hills pass by Wendover. Pop. of parish 1851, 1937.

AYLESBURY. (see p. 191.) cr. river Thame.

WHITCHURCH.

In the distance, Bulstrade Park (Duke of Portland.)

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Little Missenden Abbey.

8 m. distant is Hampden House (Earl of Buckinghamshire), formerly the seat of the celebrated John Hampden, and the place where he is interred. The spot of land on which the ship-money was levied is situated a short distance south of the avenue to the house.

Chequers, Lady Frankland Russell.

3m.dist Great Kimble. Sir F. B. Morland, Bart

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MINSTER, BROSELEY, AND COLEBROOK-DALE, 161 Miles.

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LXXV. LONDON TO SHREWSBURY THROUGH COVENTRY AND BIRMINGHAM, 153 Miles, THENCE TO HOLYHEAD, 260 Miles.

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Aston Pa., J. Watt, Esq. erected about the begin

ning of the seventeenth century, by Sir T. Holt, who entertained Charles I. here shortly before the battle of Edgehill.

Sandwell Park, Earl of
Dartmouth.

To Walsall 3 miles.
Bescot Hall.

151 From London to Bir-109 Edgbaston, Lord Calmingham, (see p. 199.)

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Soho, M. Boulton, Esq.

Wednesbury is a market-town of great antiquity, distinguished for its numerous manufactures of cast iron works of every kind, guns, &c. The old church, supposed to have been erected in the eighth century, is an elegant Gothic strue

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ture, with a lofty and beautiful spire. The interior is adorned with some exquisite carving, and contains several monuments of the ancestors of the families of the Earls Harcourt (extinct) and of Lord Ward. Some vestiges of an ancient fort built by the Saxons may still be traced. Coal is obtained here in great abundance, and of superior quality. Here also is found that peculiar species of iron ore, called "blond metal," and some spots abound with a red earth called hip, employed in glazing vessels. Pop. 1851, 11,914.

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