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Grand Junction Line.
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Hill is in the vicinity. The Church was erected partially by a grant from the Parliamentary Commissioners, and partly by subscriptions among the inhabitants; the right of presentation to the living is vested in the perpetual curate of Wolstanton. There are three Wesleyan Chapels in the town, also a neat Court and Market House.

Lane Delph, Fenton, and Cobridge are small hamlets, but contain some extensive pottery works, which employ a considerable population; this, however, is included in the townships to which they belong.

Woore is a small township in the parish of Mucklestone, hundred of Bradford, and county of Salop; Population, 400, principally agricultural. The living is a curacy, subordinate to the rectory of Mucklestone; K.B. £18. P.R. £27; patron, the Rector of Mucklestone. There is an annuity attached to this township of £15, by which thirty poor children are educated—we should think "the shoolmaster must be abroad" with such a task and such emolument.

From Birmingham.
From L'pool & Manch'r.

45¾ 51½

The cutting at Madeley is followed by a short embankment and excavation, which brings us to the 52½ post;

45 52½

the succeeding embankment is one mile in length, and carries us, with the aid of one bridge, across a portion of Whitmore Moss. The view is here bounded by bills on each side; those to the right are in many places so rugged as to create the impression that you have sud-