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gtrrftTOltfijia Camfrrmk FOURTH SERIES.—No. XX. OCTOBER, 1874. BKIDGENOETH, OLDBUKY, AND QUATFOKD. The river Severn, in its course from Shrewsbury to Worcester, passes for several miles down a deep and rugged ravine, within or near to which lie the populous districts of Coalbrook Dale, Iron Bridge, Coal Port, and Broseley, early seats of the iron manufacture, and evi¬ dences of the wealth, though scarcely in harmony with the natural beauty of the country. The ravine commences a little below the ivy-covered ruins of Buildwas Abbey, and terminates twenty to twenty-five miles lower down, about Bewdley and Stourbridge, where it opens out into a valley of a soft and smiling character. About halfway down, below Pendlestone rock and the incoming of the Worf, the Severn receives upon its right bank the waters from a short but deep and broad val¬ ley, which descends obliquely from the north-west, and between which and the main valley intervenes the point of a steep and narrow ridge of rock, rising about 200 feet above the river, and upon the nearly level summit of which is placed the town and what remains of the Castle of Bridgenorth. The rock is more lofty and the position far more striking than that of Pontefract Cas¬ tle, the defences of which were also in a great degree natural, and in these respects Bridgenorth may chal¬ lenge comparison with Coucy, which it also resembles in the relation of the castle to the town. In both 4th seu., vol. v. 18