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A TOPOGRAPHICAL, &c. 



sion of J. Amphlett, Esq. of dent-hall, the vicar heing entitled to 

 small tithes : it consists of one small aisle to the south, with a 

 handsome stone tower (containing six bells) at the west end. The' 

 whole body of the church is covered with wooden shingles, a sort 

 of decoration common to the Saxon and early Norman churches. 



BROME. This village is situated on the west side of Clent, 

 and takes its name from the great quantity of broom formerly grow- 

 ing there. The church, a small neat structure, is a rectory, dedi- 

 cated to St. Peter, in the patronage of Sir Joseph Scott, who owns 

 an estate here, and the ancient mansion called Harborough, to 

 which the Rev. Thomas Dolman, rector of Brome, succeeded by 

 marriage with Mary, a younger daughter of Wm. Penn, of Har- 

 borough, gent., Ann, the eldest, being wife of Mr. Shenstone, of 

 the Leasowes, and mother of the celebrated poet of that name, who 

 spent many of his juvenile hours in this village, and was a warm 

 admirer of Miss Dolman, his cousin, of whom he sings in one of his 

 earliest pieces, beginning " In Brome so neat in Brome so clean/* 

 which Mr. Shaw has inserted at length. 



