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LADIES' DAY. 

 LUDLOW— KICHAKD'S CASTLE, AND HAYE PARK. 



On Friday, July 11th, the Woolhope Club mustered strongly at the Barr's- 

 court Station, with provision-hampers, and — a churlish naturalist might have 

 said — other " impedimenta," to take the 9.20 a.m. train to Ludlow. The goodly 

 number of ladies arrayed in bewitching varieties of " Dolly Varden," 

 "BrovsTi Holland," and "Ticking" costtunes, bespoke at once the meeting 

 of the year when absorbed natiiralists are conspicuous by their absence, 

 but the rank and file of the club compound for the lack of severer quest 

 of matter connected with the " ologies " on condition of being allowed to 

 introduce ladies to the excursion by special ticket and to give the day's march 

 the character of a pic-nic. The party was increased by contingents from 

 Leominster and the neighbourhood of Kington, and on reaching Ludlow 

 station, where it was met by the President (the Kev. James Davies) num- 

 bered from 50 to 60. Carriages and breaks were ready to convey the 

 company direct to Richard's Castle Church, the first point of interest, and 

 here was met by Walter S. Broadwood, Esq., the present tenant of Moor 

 Park, and Alfred Salwey, Esq., the representative of the ancient family to 

 which Moor Park, Haye Park, and the chief portion of the locality marked 

 out for the day's excursion has for two centuries belonged. After a brief 

 exposition of the programme by the President, who communicated to his 

 audience Mr. Broadwood's generous permission for them to traverse the 

 richly-wooded valley of the Haye Park under the guidance of himself and 

 a keeper, and his desire to add to the comfort and pleasure of their pro- 

 posed pic-nic by providing them a tent and othervrise supplementing their 

 commissarial department, the curious old church of Eichard's Castle was 

 visited, the detached belfry duly examined, and the painted glass, ancient 

 monuments, and ancient stone coflBn lid in the interior of the church care- 

 fully noted by the archeeologists and ecclesiologists of the party. The next 

 move was to the castle, erected in the reign of Edward the Confessor, of 

 which the walls and towers, going to ruin in Leland's day, are now reduced 

 to one or two mere fragments surrounded by luxuriant wood, and almost 

 inaccessible to the passer-by. A longer halt was made in the vicinity of the 



