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hill (South) with a population of 700 persons. The manor of 

 Haywood was given by Roger de Melend, in the time of Henry 

 the Third, to Roger de Aston, a descendant of whom carried it by 

 marriage to the Tixals. It afterwards came into possession of 

 the Whitbies, but was subsequently re-united to the house of 

 Tixall, by purchase. The barn belonging to the manor-house was 

 of a most magnificent size, but has been greatly reduced. The 

 horse-bridge over the Trent, adjoining to Haywood, was formerly 

 not less remarkable for extraordinary dimensions. Mr. Pennant 

 says he remembered it to have consisted of two-and-forty arches. 

 Magna Britannia (vol. 5. p. 87) says, " it is longer than any 

 bridge in England, having near forty arches ; yet much shorter 

 than the bridge over the Drave, at Essec, which Dr. Brown tells us 

 is at least five miles long, and made all of wood." The tradition is 

 that it was built by the county, in compliment to the last Deve- 

 reux, Earl of Essex, who resided much at Chartley; and being a 

 keen sportsman, was often deprived of his diversion for want of a 

 bridge. Mr. Pennant, who states this, says he was not clear about 

 the truth of this report, and adds " then there certainly had been 

 a bridge here long before ; so that if there was any foundation for 

 such a mark of respect, it could only have been rebuilt, after falling 

 to decay.* 



The chief reason for the notice which we have just given of Hay- 

 wood, and of this bridge, is that we might more conveniently intro- 

 duce the beautiful Vale of Shugborough, which from the middle of 

 the bridge is seen to great advantage. This vale, varied with al- 

 most every thing that nature and art could give to render it deli- 

 cious, is watered by the Trent and Sow. The first, to use the words 

 of the author last quoted, animated with milk-white cattle, emu- 

 lating those of Tinian, the last with numerous swans. The boundary 

 on one side is a cultivated slope ; on the other, the lofty front of 

 Cannock-wood, clothed with heath, or shaded with old oaks, scat- 

 tered over its glowing bloom by the free hand of nature. It is 

 more difficult, continues Mr. Pennant, to enumerate the works of 

 art dispersed over this Elysium : they epitomize those of so many 

 places. The old church of Colwich ; the mansion of the ancient 

 English baron at Wolseley Hall ; the great windowed mode of 

 building in the reign of Queen Elizabeth, in the house of Ingestre ; 



* Journey from Chester, p. 90. 



