Shifnal.—Pretty town, with quaint timbered houses; church Norman, Early English, and Decorated.

Wroxeter.—The Roman Uriconium; Roman remains.

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(Trunk) No. 3. ATHERSTONE TO SHREWSBURY. (Trunk) No. 3.

At Atherstone the railway is passed by a bridge, superseding a former level-crossing. Immediately to the left a road leads to the site of the almost demolished Merevale Abbey, the chapel of which is still used as a parish church, and contains recumbent effigies of the Ferrers family. The road to Fazeley is undulating and uninteresting. To the south of the town lies Drayton Manor, the seat of the great Sir Robert Peel. Here one is forcibly reminded by ocular evidence that this is a mining district. A turning to the right leads to

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