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a scattering of fruit, and a few hops have been gathered 
here, in some places none, fruit trees in hop yards, 
country uneven but fertile. Astley Common, sound 
land, and good grey-faced sheep. To Bewdley, 4th. — 
Burley Common, a sound sheep walk, similar to Astley, 
country sandy, considerable woodlands in sight on the 
sloping banks of the Severn ; Winterdine, a seat of 
Sir Thomas Winnington’s, built on a ledge of rocks 
over the Severn ; pass Bewdley, and the Forest of 
Wire, a wood land and waste land of great extent pe¬ 
netrating into Shropshire, a cold strong soil on calca¬ 
reous stone, the wood-land profusely stocked with oak, 
which is cut down at a certain growth, reserving a 
proper number for timber trees, and being then strip¬ 
ped of its bark, is sold under the name of black poles, 
for making rails, laths, hurdles, &c. immense quanti¬ 
ties of which are produced in this forest: leaving the 
forest, cold pasture land continues overrun with sca- 
biosa succisa; road hilly and stony. To Mamble, 
sounder, dryer, and better land, orchards and hop 
yards, and an ox team at work ploughing a wheat stub¬ 
ble for rye; turnip grown. 
In a dingle, or precipious valley, near this place, 
coal has been found, and a work opened for sale, but the 
vein or stratum is a thin one; a rail-way has also been 
formed to the Leominster canal. 
Towards Tenbury, country rather later; beans in 
orchards, and some not harvested; seed clover, some 
not carried; potatoes in hop yards between the rows; 
large cabbages in others, in a row with the hop plants; 
turnips promiscuous. 
From Tenbury down the Vale of Teme, a tract of 
country possessing great fertility, variety, and beauty ; 
its length from above Tenbury, where it enters this 
county 
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