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 is so slight, the engineer had considerable trouble in its completion; a vast quantity of earth having been used before a solid superstructure could be formed. At the 68¼ post is the

From this station Newport is twelve miles westward, Uttoxeter 14, Sandon 5, Rugeley 9, Lichfield 17, eastward. ( continued p. 102.)

STAFFORD, a borough, market town, and parish, in the south division of the hundred of Pirehill and county of Stafford, it is situated on the north bank of the river Sow, three miles from its junction with the Trent; Pop. 6,998, An. As. Val. £5,780. The principal trade of the town consists in making boots and shoes, tanning leather, and, to a certain extent, cutlery and cabinet work; the two former are, however, its most prominent objects of trade. Market on Saturday ; fairs, Tuesday before Shrove Tuesday, April 3, May 7 and 14, for horses and cattle; Saturday before St. Peter and June 29, for wool; September 16, 17, 18, for cattle and horses; October 2, for colts; December 4, for cattle and pigs. The corporation of the town consists of a mayor, ten aldermen, ten principal burgesses, a recorder, town clerk,