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EOYAL CHASE OF SHIRLOT. 



Some of the cliief foresters also lield "Willey, 

 and probably resided there ; at any rate it is not 

 improbable that a building which bears marks of 

 extreme antiquity, between Barrow and Broseley, 

 called the Lodge Farm, was once the hunting lodge. 

 It has underneath strongly arched and extensive 



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cellaring, which seems to be older than portions of 

 the superstructure, and which may have held the 

 essentials for feasts, for which sportsmen of all 

 times have been famous. "NesLV the lodge, too, is 

 the Bear-Loape, or Deer Leap, a little valley through 

 which once evidently ran a considerable stream, 



