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Drake's Road Book of the Grand Junction Railway from Birmingham to Liverpool and Manchester - active 1825 James Drake


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It stands conspicuously on the summit and acclivities of a limestone rock, which is crowned by the church, the lofty spire of which forms a fine object. Market on Tuesday; fairs September 24, Whit Monday, and Tuesday before Michaelmas day. Proceeding onwards we pass under

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      Distance to Birmingham, 9½—Liverpool and Manchester, 88 miles.

      DISTANCES BY ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING PLACES:—

Places W. of Station. Places E. of Station.
Wednesbury 1 mile Walsall 1½ mile
Tipton 4 miles Rushall 2½ miles
Dudley 5½— Over Stonnal 6½—
Netherton 6¾— Lower Stonnal 7½—
Brierley Hill 8¼— Shenstone 9—
King Swinford 8½— Lichfield 11—
Wordesley 9¼—
The Lye 9¼—
Stourbridge 9¾—
Old Swinford 10½—

      The main road from Wednesbury to Walsall crosses this bridge; pass Bescot Hall, (Mr. Marshall’s,) on the E., and reach

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      Distance to Birmingham, 10¼—Liverpool and Manchester, 87¼ miles.

      DISTANCES BY ROADS FROM THIS STATION TO THE FOLLOWING PLACES:—

Places W. of Station. Places E. of Station.
Darlaston ¾ mile Walsall 1¾ mile
Coseley 3 miles

      The high road from Walsall crosses here to Darlaston, (seen in the distance on the W.,) another town in the iron and coal district, and, according to tradition, the seat of Wulphere, king of Mercia, who put his two sons to death for embracing Christianity. On the hill at Berry Bank, are the remains of a large castle and entrenchments, and near by, a Barrow, which it were heresy to doubt were the residence and grave of this redoubtable personage. The chief manufactures of this, as of the neighbouring towns, consist of various iron and steel goods. The whole district is abundantly traversed by canals, tram-roads, &c., for the convenient conveyance of merchandise, and presents to the passing traveller less subject for praise in point of beauty, than for admiration and surprise, at the closely-placed engines, mills, coal-pits, iron-mines, and factories, which greet him on all sides, with hissing, curling volumes of white steam, or thick massy clouds of rolling smoke. Should the traveller journey through this strange neighbourhood by night, the novel and wild, not to say, grand, effect of the fires, must strike him forcibly. Huge furnaces glowing on the earth, from a dark wayside forge; tall chimneys, themselves not seen in the gloom, vomiting forth flames and fiery-coloured smoke, or a long range of glowing hillocks, where flickering blazes play from the charcoal burning within: add to these, the dusky figures of the men and boys employed in the works, and a stranger will have a scene before him, in which the “fearsome” is oddly enough blended with the grotesque.

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