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The county seats of Shropshire : a series of descriptive sketches, with historical and antiquarian notes, of the principal family mansions (1891)

Leach, Francis · Shrewsbury : Eddowes's Shrewsbury Journal Office · leaf 39

An illustration from The county seats of Shropshire : a series of descriptive sketches, with historical and antiquarian notes, of the principal family mansions, 1891, leaf 39 — ys of bluff King Hal VIII,who granted the manor of Red Castle to Sir Andrew Corbet, Knight, and it was not until theeighteenth century that it was purchased by the Hill family. A fascinating valley divides the EedCastle Hill from the Elysian Hill, which is exceedingly picturesque. About a mile from… … THE EED CASTLE. « Camdens Britannia (edit. 1695) says that scarce a mile from Eed Castle a small city once stood—Soman antiquities have often been here dug or ploughed up. The remains of copper mines,probably worked by the Eomans, arc near at hand, and coins of an early period have also been…

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