{2} The population of the Borough is 19,681; that of the Registrar’s District 23,104. There are 13 Churches, affording 9,618 “sittings;” and 25 Dissenters’ Meeting Houses, with 5,805 “sittings.” The numbers of attendants, March 30, 1851, including Sunday Scholars, were at the Churches, in the morning, 6,080; afternoon, 3,135; and evening, 2,853; and at the Dissenters’ Meeting Houses,—morning, 2,089; afternoon, 398; evening, 2,232. {3} We would refer the visitor, who may be desirous of acquainting himself with our local history, to the inestimable History of Shrewsbury by Owen and Blakeway, 2 vols. 4to; a work of high historic authority, and abounding with deep and true antiquarian research. From this valuable publication we have condensed our accounts of the ecclesiastical structures of the place. {20} The Council usually sat in Ludlow Castle, but for the greater dispatch of business occasionally assembled at Shrewsbury, Bewdley, and Hereford. {21} The chimney piece of the Great Chamber is now, it is believed, preserved in Condover Hall, near this town. Its sculpture consists of Adam and Eve amid the trees of Paradise. {53} Should the visitor feel disposed to prolong his walk in this direction, he will find himself amply compensated by the enjoyment of an extensive prospect of the town, and the windings of the Severn, amid the romantic and richly wooded banks of Shelton and Berwick. A few minutes’ stroll along the turnpike road, beautifully shaded by overhanging beech trees, will also bring him to the magnificent iron gates which afford entrance to the delightful grounds of Berwick, abounding in trees of great size and beauty. The Mansion-House, the seat of the Honourable Wentworth Powys, soon presents itself; and at a short distance, embosomed in trees, stands the small, but picturesque CHAPEL, erected in 1672, on the site of an ancient ruinous structure, and appropriated to the use of the inmates of the adjacent Hospital for decayed housekeepers, erected and endowed at the above period by Sir Samuel Jones, Knt. the then possessor of the Berwick estates. [Picture: The Chapel] To the lover of sylvan scenery, the neighbouring woods of Almond Park and the picturesque and woody declivities of Leaton Shelf, will afford a rich treat; and the experienced botanist will find in them many rare and beautiful species of brambles, and other floral treasures, well worthy his careful investigation. {56} The turnpike road in this direction will conduct the stranger to Battlefield, “the royal field of Shrewsbury,” the site of the important Battle of Shrewsbury, fought on 20th July, 1403:— “the bloody rout that gave To Harry’s brow a wreath,—to Hotspur’s heart a grave.” To detail the events of this direful contest would far exceed our prescribed limits, and we must, therefore, content ourselves by referring our readers to works of a higher order:—