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 east of the line, and its population is 243, principally agriculturists. ( continued page 42.)

From this station Frodsham is three. Chester thirteen miles to the westward. We shall notice these places here, because the Railroad Circular places them as easiest of access from this Station, though we should certainly have chosen Preston Brook as the most eligible point from which to proceed to either.

FRODSHAM is a market town, parish, and township, in the hundred of Eddisbury. The population of the parish and town is 5,547, of the town 1,746; An. As. Val. £,6780. It is pleasantly situated on an eminence under the hills, which form the northern extremity of Delamere Forest, at the confluence of the Weaver and Mersey. It has an ancient church, dedicated to St. Lawrence, which stands on an eminence above the town; the living is a vicarage, in the archdeaconry and diocese of Chester. C.V. £23 13s. 11½d.; patron, Christ Church, Oxford.

Here is a well endowed free school, and a house for the master, on the summit of which is an observatory. This, like many of the towns in this county, formerly had a castle, which was given by Edward the First to David Lleweyllen, who afterwards broke his alliance with that monarch, and put one of