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Hadreshull (from-which the name Hartshill is a corruption) 
~ obtained a special license from the Bishop of the Diocese 
for a Priest to celebrate Divine Service within his house at 
Hadreshull. The wall and the rest of Manor House was 
probably built by his Father William de Hadreshull, who 
as early as the twenty-first of Edward I. (1293) obtained 
free warren of all his demesne lands here. 
As a characteristic Manor House of the close of the 
thirteenth and beginning of the fourteenth century it was 
worthy a visit. 
On their return towards Nuneaton several clay pits were 
visited, but no fossils found, more time was spent in 
examining the ferruginous shales, which in several places 
appeared to present traces of either vegetable or animal 
remains, but too imperfect to be recognized. 
The second Meeting of the season was held at the Craven 
Arms, Shropshire, where the party arrived at 11 a.m. on 
Monday, 22nd of June, 1863. The members were met by 
the Rev. J. La Touche, and W. Jones, Esq., and under the 
able guidance of the former, started for Dinchop, to a quarry 
of Aymestry-limestone. where only a few fossils were 
obtained, Atrypa, Pterinea, Sowerbyi, not a common shell, 
and the usual corals. The section was an instructive one, 
shewing the relation of this limestone to the Ludlow beds. 
Norton was next visited, a well known and interesting 
locality, where the Ludlow bone bed is largely developed, 
though the chief contents consist of spines and other 
portions of the Silurian Crustacean Ceratiocaris; at this 
spot, too, fine specimens of Homolonotus Knightii have 
been found. ; 
