[Picture: Tomb of Confessor Burton] Close adjoining, amid the beautiful woods and plantations on the banks of the Severn, is the fine Gothic mansion of Longner, the residence of Robert Burton, Esq. In the Garden is preserved, with sacred care, the ALTAR-TOMB of one of the ancestors of the Burton family, known as the “_Confessor Burton_,” who died suddenly for joy on the restoration of the Reformed Religion on the accession of Elizabeth, and whose corpse being refused burial in the family vault in St. Chad’s, the parish church, by the Romish clergyman who then officiated there, was carried back and interred in this spot by his family. [Picture: Portion of Roman City Wall] About a mile from Atcham is the Roman station of Uriconium, or Wroxeter. A PORTION OF THE CITY WALL is still standing, and the foundations of the boundary walls of the whole place may be traced with tolerable accuracy in the adjoining fields. Many sepulchral inscribed stones, altars, pavements, coins, fibulæ, vases, &c. have at various times been ploughed up by the inhabitants. The church is well deserving of notice: and in the walls of the chancel may be seen curious remains of early Anglo-Norman arches. The interior contains the fine altar-tomb, with cumbent effigies, of Sir Thomas Bromley, Lord Chief Justice of England, one of the Executors of Henry VIII. There are also monuments to the Barkers of Haughmond; Sir Richard Newport, ancestor of the Earls of Bradford; Francis, first Earl of Bradford, and several others of the Newport family. From the village a fine prospect of the adjacent Wrekin is obtained. {157} Continuing our walk we speedily reach the peaceful and sequestered village of Meole Brace, celebrated for its excellent trout stream, on the banks of which was born and educated Thomas Barker, from whom honest Izaak Walton, in his delightful book, “The Complete Angler,” acknowledges that he derived the greater portion of his information, relative to fly-fishing. Mr. Barker published in 1691 a work entitled “Barker’s Delight, or the Art of Angling,” which ran through three editions in the space of eight years, and which is still in much repute among the lovers of the “gentle art.” Near the Bridge are Evans’s Alms-houses, built in 1844, under the will of the late Mr. John Evans of this town, for nine poor widows, who each have a liberal yearly allowance. [Picture: Meole Bridge, &c.] At the distance of a mile from Meole are the Sharpstones Hill and Bomere Pool, noted for their lovely scenery, and as the habitats of many of the rarer species of plants indigenous to the vicinity.