LIST OF ENGRAVINGS.

SHREWSBURY.

EMINENT NATIVES OF SHREWSBURY;

BIRDS

A FEW OF THE RARER SPECIES OF PLANTS GROWING IN A WILD STATE IN THE IMMEDIATE VICINITY OF SHREWSBURY.

INDEX.

STREETS. [i]

The Shrewsbury Guide Advertiser.

FOOTNOTES.

Book cover

A GUIDE,
DESCRIPTIVE AND HISTORICAL,
THROUGH THE
TOWN OF SHREWSBURY,

INTERSPERSED WITH BRIEF NOTICES OF THE MORE

REMARKABLE OBJECTS IN THE ENVIRONS,

TO WHICH ARE APPENDED, LISTS OF
THE EMINENT NATIVES OF THE TOWN,
WITH REFERENCES TO BIOGRAPHICAL WORKS;

OF
THE BIRDS SEEN IN THE NEIGHBOURHOOD;

AND OF
THE RARER SPECIES OF PLANTS
INDIGENOUS TO THE VICINITY.

BY THE
REV. W. A. LEIGHTON, B.A.  F.B S.E.
AUTHOR OF “A FLORA OF SHROPSHIRE,” &c.

“I held on way to auncient Shrewsebrie towne,
And so from horse at lodging lighting downe,
I walkt the streats, and markt what came to vewe.”

Churchyard.

 

FOURTH EDITION.
Illustrated with Sixty=one Engravings on Wood.

SHREWSBURY:
PUBLISHED BY JOHN DAVIES, XV. HIGH STREET.
SOLD BY ALL BOOKSELLERS.

“Without aiming to be great—we aspire only to be useful.”

Dr. Butler’s Inaugural Address, 1835.