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will keep the sight-seer occupied, and within a 

 short train or motor journey is Ludlow, whose 

 castle is a gold mine to the antiquary. The 

 Feathers Hotel at Ludlow has been a hotel since 

 1656. A sixteenth-century poet, Churchyard 

 (1520-1604), wrote of Ludlow : 



" Who that lists to walk the Towne about 

 Shall find therein some rare and pleasant things." 



Admiration of Shropshire scenery found ex- 

 pression, a short while back, in a rather unex- 

 pected direction. In a sincere, warm-hearted 

 letter, informing the officials of the County Court 

 circuit, which covered a large part of Shropshire, 

 of his impending retirement (occasioned by pro- 

 motion to the County Court Judgeship at West- 

 minster), his Honour Judge Sir Alfred Tobin, 

 K.C., put on record his regret at leaving the 

 people of Shropshire, its hills and its valleys, and 

 its rivers. Travelling from town to town, as his 

 judicial duties necessitated, he had been able to 

 appreciate the rivers, and his grateful reference to 

 our kinsfolk, hills, and rivers made good reading 

 for Shropshire folk at home and abroad. 



The county of Salop can pride itself on one 

 very old man ; for the Chapel of Great Woolaston 

 contains this inscription : 



"THE OLD, VERY OLD MAN, THOMAS PARR, was born at 

 the Glyn, in the Township of Winnington, within this chapelry 

 of Great Willaston, and Parish of Alberbury, in the County 

 of Salop, in the year of our Lord 1483. He lived in the 

 Reign^ of ten king* and queen* of England (viz.) : King 



