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é« Effays on the Piturefque.’? The houfe, a plain brick 
oe 
building, poneine ata fine and ses {ting pictures by 
la Por 
, Salvator Rofa, Rembrandt, Vandervelde, 
&c. from a fin ed of w sey and the highly degen 
refque {cenery in the vicinity of the houfe, Mr. Price ap- 
pears to have derived many of the’ maxims and sginces 
which are contained in Lis volumes. Two miles from the 
houfe is a lofty knoll, or mountain, called Lady-lift, which 
commands proipects Pe an extenfive, diverfified, and high 
interefling tract of fcenery. On another eminence, called 
Crede shill, three eg a half miles S. E. of Foxley, are the 
traces of an encampment, which comprehended an area of 
The view from this hill is faid to be the 
where the Romans had a grand military {tation ‘Tra f 
walls and embankments are {till remaining, cad fark various relics 
of the arts and cuftoms of the Romans have been found here. 
At Sutton’s Walls, five miles N. of Hereford, is an encamp- 
ment, which is tr aditionally faid to have been the {cite of 
Offa’s palace. Seven miles from Hereford is Burghope 
houfe, an ancient manfion, which formerly belonged to the 
families of Goodyere and Dineley, and is now the property 
of lord Selfey. Longworth, the feat of Robert Phillipps, 
efq. about four miles E. of Hereford, is a handfome mo- 
dern gS — by pleafure-grounds and fine plan- 
tations. At Stoke, or Stoke-Edith, isa modern church, 
built at the fole Leneiite of Thomas Foley, efq. in 1740; 
and a large, handfome manfion mee eS to Edward Thomas 
Foley, efg. Sufton, a modern houfe built of Bath-ftone, is 
the feat of James Hereford, efq. This place has Ree: 
iT. other- 
or-hill, near Rotherwas, are ve 
Blailinacns, traditionally faid to have Seed strat by 
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tbe the delightful 
feat of J. Matthews, eiq. ee ee P. for this county. Dun- 
comb’s “ Collection towards the Hiftory and Antiquities of 
the County of Hereford,’ “gto. 1804.—* The Hereford 
wide,?” &c. rzmo. 1806; a very useful and judicious topo- 
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military talents of Julius Frontinus, they retired into sl 
~-faftnefles of Wales, offering no farther refiftance to Rom 
demination ; and the complete and unditturbed poffeffion “of 
South Britain was by this fuccefs infured to me conquerors, 
who included Herefordfhire in the diftrict named Britannia 
Secunda. Two of the principal ttations of the Itiverary of 
Antoninus, namely, Magna, now Kenchetter, and Ariconium, 
ofs, together with the {maller port of Bravinium, or 
Brandon, are fituated within the Canis of thiseounty. The 
Watling Street enters it on the north from rb foi pr near 
Leintwardine, where it paffes the river Teme condu 
to the camp of Brandon. A fecond Roman ul, ultimately 
joining with the former at Utk, enters Herefordthire on the 
m Gloucetterfhire ; and appears to have con- 
nected the Cacia of Glevum or. Gloucefter, Ariconium, 
Bleftium or Monmouth, and Burium or Ufk. A third Ro. 
man road enters this county from Worcetterfhire, and ones 
Frome: Hill, Stretton Granfham or Grandifon, Lugg-bridge, 
Holmer, saul Stretton-Sugwas, extends to Kencheiter. A. 
fourth ancient road, called the Ridge-way, is met with to the - 
fouth of the Herefordfhire beacon, ena: feveral miles 
tewards Eaftnor, ina a dire 
On the decline of t aipowet the Silures were the 
foremoft in tn rif a9 their independence, and 
to ftem the torrent of Saxon uiurpation : but refiftance be- 
ing unavailing, the Britons were driven back Kel Wales, and 
Offa i meer ated Herefordthire with the Sax 
Mere i 
called Clawdd Off, or Offa's hay was. ma 
prince to fecure his ends which comprehended nearly 
the whole of this county, together with contiderable portions 
of Radnorfhire, Monmouth{hire, and Shropthire. Sill fur« 
ther to reprefs the repeated on of the Britons, Offa 
removed his court to South-tow w Sutton, about three 
miles north-weft see Hereford, serach he erected a palace, 
ed by ftrong entrenchments. About 
cent the Danes prea: a tempo- 
urthred t 
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ons, tvho united it to his own. 
erefordthire is bounded _ e north by Shropfhire ; ow 
the Bab OI and ealt, by W: pase apr on the fouth- 
eaft, by Gloucetterfhire ; on the pa ago ; é 
fhire; on the welt, by by Brecknockshire ; ; 
welt, by Radnorfhire. Its form is ae an 
fome detached parifhes are fituated regents the 
line: of thefe, Farlow is furrounded by Shropfhi 
ford is included in the county of Worcetter ; 3 and (pe ry 
hill in that of Radnor: a confiderable tra& of land, called Ne« 
infulated by 
Ludford on the woth: to the oppofit 
h, is ni 88 25 sien its 
t Cradley 
end’ is divided into eleven h ontaining md 
under the act of 1801, was pa 
po of. inhabitante 89,191: its boundaries are 
of de county is extremely 
ue and coat to cae traveller : its panera 
at ae Sota. Yue fou Selly 
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