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it's channel only by low and uninteref- 

 ting meadows. 



The church, or more properly chapel, 

 for it is a chapel of eafe to Gresford, the 

 parifh church, is built of the fame kind of 

 red ftone, and feems to be of about the 

 fame antiquity as the bridge. 



The caftle, of which the remains are 

 but little more than folid rock, was fitu- 

 ated clofe to the river. It was defended 

 on three fides by a trench, forty or fifty 

 yards wide, cut out of the folid rock, of 



which eight or ten yards of thefounda- 



ito*- 

 tion of the caftle was formed. From 



the colour and grit qf the ftone ufed in 

 the building, it appears to have been 

 taken from this trench. The fortrefs 

 confifted of five baftions, four of which 

 were round, and the remaining one, next 

 the river, fquare. The entrance was by 

 a drawbridge over the trench on the 

 weft fide. So little of the (tone work 

 VOL. ii. F is 



