be given up to the king's chamberlain; a custom which was continued until
recently.



BRIDGNORTH


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Population, 6,569.

Market day--Saturday. Fairs--January 20th, February 17th, May 1st, June
9th, July 14th, August 18th, September 15th, October 29th, December 28th.

Principal Hotel--The Crown, for which, as well as for the Swan, the
Raven, and the George, see Advertisements.

The station, at the southern termination of the tunnel, is a chaste
building of freestone, and forms an additional ornament to the town. It
occupies a position from which its two divisions come pleasantly into
view, the Low Town lying peacefully in the valley by the Severn, the High
Town dotting the terraced sides, and crowning the bold impending rocks
that give it, in the eyes of travellers, such an eastern aspect. Caverned
in the hill, at many stages from its foot, and reached by winding walks,
are picturesque holes and habitations--happily now no longer used,
excepting in very few instances indeed--where the first settlers crowded
when the ruthless Dane perched himself like a famished eagle on the rocks
of Quatford down below. In the foreground are the time-worn relics of
its two castles, to which the little colony was indebted for protection