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The destruction of the castle (which is of uncertain antiquity) was performed by those ruin-making gentlemen, the Oliverians, in the civil wars; who, after beating the Royalists in the neighbourhood, blew up the castle. The mine intended to destroy the tower was not of sufficient extent to to effect it, and left an angle of it in the situation above-mentioned. It stands at the corner of the church-yard; where it is associated with a modern place of worship, or dissimular architecture, and bad proportion. Adjoining this cemetery is the terrace, a fashionable walk of Bridgnorth; conducted along the brow of a cliff one hundred feet high, overlooking the lower town, the river, and a widely-spreading country. On descending from our elevated situation, and passing under this rock, we remarked, that its stratification was extremely curious. Crossing from hence to the opposite side of the meandring Severn, we drove beneath its wild and perpendicular banks, following a most inchanting road for three or four miles, till we reached Apley-Terrace (a part of the ancient demesne of the Charltons, now belonging to Mr. Whitmore) the most remarkable feature of this county: a dead flat full a mile in length, and of great height; planted with every variety of tree, which opening at proper distances allow a view of the immense flat to the left,
