Transcribed from the 1824 (second) edition ,

THE
STRANGER
IN
SHREWSBURY:
OR,
AN HISTORICAL ANDDESCRIPTIVE
VIEW
OF
SHREWSBURY
AND
ITS ENVIRONS.

BY THOMAS HOWELL.

SECOND EDITION.
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            Alovely spot
For all that life can ask!  Salubrious! mild!
Its hills are green: its woods and prospects fair!
Its meadows fertile!  And to crown the whole
In one delightful word—it is our Home—
Our Native Place.

COTTLE’S ALFRED.

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Shrewsbury:
PRINTED AND SOLD BY THE AUTHOR,
And by the Booksellers in the County.

1824.

p. iiiTHEauthor cannot permit a second edition of the Stranger to issuefrom the press, without acknowledging the lasting obligation heis under to his fellow-townsmen, for the friendly patronagebestowed on its first appearance.

Shrewsbury,
         May 18,1824.

p.1HISTORY.

The carelessness which in manyinstances is evident in the orthography of our ancestors,frequently renders it matter of extreme difficulty to fix, withaccuracy and precision, the etymology of places which in earlytimes were conspicuous for the parts they bore in our nationaltransactions.

This is in some measure the situation of Shrewsbury, which bythe ancient Welsh was called Ymwithig, or “theDelight;” by the Britons Pengwern; and by the SaxonsScrobbesbyrig; the two latter names signifying nearly the same,“the Head of the Alder Groves.”  But it isprobable that the Normans after their conquest of the Island,either from inability to pronounce the harsher Saxon words, orfrom the spirit of innovation on the names and manners of theinhabitants, generally possessed by conquerors, were induced tosoften the term into Shrobbesburie and Sloppesburie, from whencewere derived the modern names of Shrewsbury and Salop, in latinSalopia.  Some are inclined to think the latter name wasformed from the two Saxon words p. 2sel, signifying pleasant, andhope, the side of a hill, which certainly accords with itssituation.

Leland, the antiquary and poet, in his description of thetown, thus accounts for its name:—

Built on a hill, fair Salop greets the eye,
While Severn forms a crescent gliding by;
Two bridges cross the navigable stream,
And British Alders gave the town a name.

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