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 Ashted was now being rapidly built upon. In the following announcement we have an excellent specimen of a land agent's ability in setting forth the value of his estate. Every point of 'vantage is made the most of, and the crowning inducement, that the establishment of a market is in agitation, carefully reserved for the close. The market, however, was not built until our own time, which has seen at once its erection and failure.

August 6, 1792,—The numerous applications to Rent Houses built upon this Estate, not only prove the Pleasantness of its Situation, but the Advantage of building upon a Spot, where, by Experience, the Takers of Land are sure to be recompensed either from a Certainty of Tenants, in case they are inclined to employ their Money in Building, or from the annual Increase in the Value of the Land, if taken upon Speculation, as is proved by those who have taken Lots more than sufficient for their own Purpose, having, in the short Space of Three Years, gained, by Letting to Under Tenants, at the Rate of from Ten to Twenty Pounds an acre per annum, over and above the Rent they pay.

The Healthfulness of the Spot, the Advantage of the Chapel, the Goodness and Regulations that are made in the Streets, contribute greatly to the Benefit of the Ground Tenants, as well as the Occupiers of the Houses, to which the Consideration of plentiful Springs of fine soft Water, the moderate Rate Bricks are purchased at upon the Spot, with the Benefit of Land (only for the Expence of getting) may be named as very material Savings in the Expence of Building,—to which, in point of essential advantage, may be added, the convenience of the Canal passing through the Estate, and the great Difference in the Parish Rates between Aston and Birmingham, being at least Two-thirds less in the Parish of Aston.

Manufacturers in particular, and the Inhabitants of Ashted in general, by a late Regulation are essentially accommodated.—All letters coming by the nail, and all Letters or Orders from any Part of the Town of Birmingham, wished to be conveyed speedily, and without trouble, will, by being put into the Post-office by Twelve o'Clock on each Day, be punctually delivered at Ashted within Ten Minutes after the Office is open for Delivery of Letters from London, and a Receiving Box is established at Mr. Spreadborough's, at Ashted Tavern, where Letters or Orders put in before Half-past Eleven o'Clock, will be regularly delivered to any Part of the Town, as early as the Letters from London are delivered.—Some Lots of Land, which have the Advantage of a Country Situation, at a greater Distance from the Town, very inviting to Gentlemen or Ladies who wish a pleasing Retirement, and many advantageous Situations for Manufactories or other Business, to be LET; as also some Sittings in the Chapel.—For further particulars enquire at Mr. Brooke's Office, in Temple Row, Birmingham, or of Mr. Kenmpson, Surveyor.

N.B. The establishing a Market at Ashted is in Agitation.

In this year a new plan of the town was published, known to collectors as the plan of 1792. It is thus announced in the Gazette:—