46 Column in honour of Lord Hill 147 47 St. Giles’s Church 148 48 Interior of ditto 151 49 “Pest-Basin,” in St. Giles’s Churchyard 152 50 Altar-tomb at Longner 155 51 Roman Wall at Wroxeter 155 52 Trinity Church 156 53 Meole Bridge, &c. 157 54 Window in Franciscan Friary 158 55 The Quarry 159 56 St. Chad’s Church 163 57 Font in ditto 165 58 Figure of St. Chad in ditto 167 59 Welsh Bridge 171 60 St. George’s Church 173 61 Shelton Oak 176 * * * * * _August_, 1855. SHREWSBURY. SHREWSBURY, the capital town of Shropshire, lies nearly in the centre of that fertile county, and occupies a commanding eminence which gradually rises from the bed of the river Severn, whose stream gracefully bends its course around three sides of the town, thus forming a peninsula, having its narrow isthmus towards the north-east. From whatever point the traveller approaches, his mind cannot fail of being forcibly impressed with the singular beauty of its situation and general aspect;—its dark and frowning castle, the elegant towers and gracefully tapering spires of its ecclesiastical structures; the undulating, irregular, yet picturesque disposition of its buildings, and above all, the beautiful windings of “Severn’s ambient wave;”—all combine to form a prospect surpassed by none and equalled but by few other towns of our island. [Picture: Organ Screen in St. Mary’s Church] From the gradual and progressive improvements of civilization, the present condition of the town presents few points of resemblance to the appearance indicated in its original Saxon name, Scrobbesbyrig, _the fenced eminence overgrown with shrubs_; a dense population of more than 20,000 inhabitants {2} now dwelling within its extent, busily engaged in the manufactures of linen, thread, iron, brawn, &c.—not forgetting those far-famed cakes “Whose honour’d name th’ inventive city own, Rendering thro’ Britain’s isle Salopia’s praises known.” [Picture: Norman Doorway, St. Mary’s Church]