To NEW TOWN, John Jones, from the Three Tuns, every Friday To SHREWSBURY AND NORTH WALES, per the Shrewsbury & Hereford Railway Company, Gibson & Co. agents BRIDGNORTH, WITH THE VILLAGE OF QUATFORD AND NEIGHBOURHOOD. BRIDGNORTH is a market town and borough, both corporate and parliamentary, having separate jurisdiction, locally in the hundred of Stoddesdon; 139 miles N.W. from London, 20 S.E. from Shrewsbury, 13 N.N.W. from Kidderminster, the like distance W. by S. from Wolverhampton, and 27 W. by N. from Birmingham. It is charmingly and romantically situated on the banks of the Severn, which river divides it into two parts, called the Upper Town and the Lower Town. The Upper Town lies on the summit and steep declivities of a rock, rising abruptly to the height of one hundred and eighty feet from the western bank of the river, and presents an appearance singularly picturesque. The river is crossed by a handsome stone bridge of six arches, leading into the Lower Town. This place, according to some authorities, was anciently called _Brugia_, _Brug_, and (including Little Brug) _Bruges_, deriving its name from a bridge over the Severn, built by the Saxons and destroyed by the Danes. Upon the erection of a new bridge, about a mile and a half to the north of the former, it obtained the appellation of _Brug North_, whence its present name is deduced. Mr. Smalman’s opinion respecting the derivation of the name, ‘Bridgnorth,’ is somewhat opposed to this statement; we therefore refer the reader to that gentleman’s ‘History of Quatford,’ as well meriting the attention of the etymologist. This town appears to have obtained some consequence as early as the time of Ethelfleda, wife of King Ethelred, and was fortified and furnished with a castle by Robert de Belesme. This fortress was of great magnitude, and was of much importance so late as the civil war, when it sustained great damage in the struggle for its possession by the royalists and parliamentarians.