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in fallow time between Hazeldine and Russell's End the deep 

 red brick colour of the sloping grounds of the Bunter rocks majr 

 be seen dipping under the waterstones of Redmarley. Bromes- 

 berrow is said to have been so called from its numerous rounded 

 hills or barrows, and the bright blossoms of the broom {Cytisus 

 scoparius) with which its rounded hills were once covered. It 

 is a pleasant hamlet beneath the south slope of the Chase End 

 Hill, one of the south Malverns, and has a church worthy of 

 the worship of God, restored in excellent good taste by my 

 friend the Rev. Reginald Pindar Hill. Bromesberrow offers 

 many temptations to the naturalist to hnger on summer days 

 in the shade of its lovely lanes and ingle nooks. Like the 

 neighbourhood of the Bunter beds near Bewdley, it is a favourite 

 haunt of the great stag beetle, and the botanist gathers the 

 nodding Star of Bethlehem {Omithogalurn mdans) in a field 

 below Coneygre Wood. In another field below Howler's Heath, 

 and close to a hill of Permian breccia, grows narcissus poeticus 

 (the sweet-scented daffodil), while on a wall close to the Browns- 

 end, the home of one of the last descendants of the Nanpans 

 of Birtsmorton, grows kirritis glabra (the tower mustard). Nor 

 is Bromesberrow wanting in other points of interest to the 

 naturalist. At Coneygre Hill grows an ancient yew tree, which 

 last Easter time called forth the admiration of Dr. Hooker, of 

 Kew, who told me that he hardly knew so fine a tree, or one 

 which, from its growth, shows better proof of its hoar antiquity. 

 On the Glynch Brook, beyond the church, are the remains of an 

 old manor house, belonging to a gentleman named Stone, who 

 resides in Ireland. It is somewhat remarkable that this house 

 has been the property of the Stone family ever since the days 

 of Edward II, and that a will is still extant by which Mistress 

 Dorothy Stone bequeathed her " one pot and one pann to her 

 daughter, the sum of fourpence to the Cathedral Church of 

 Hereford, and a kerchief to the blessed Virgin of Bromesberrow." 

 At the Rectory are some Parliamentary Banners, on one of 

 which is inscribed "Leges Anglicse Libertates Parhamentorum." 

 They formerly were hung in the church, and were, I believe, 

 carried by Yates of Arlington, at the battle of Worcester. 



