DESCRIPTION OF THE TOWN of LUDLOW. Name, Situation, Extent, Number of Houses, and Inhabitants. IT has been said that Towns, as well as every thing in nature, have exceedingly minute beginnings, and generally take a name from situation or local circumstances; thus, the town of LUDLOW was anciently called by the Welsh, DINAN, LEYS, TwysoG, or the PRINCE'S PALACE. Situated upon an eminence in a luxuriant part of the southern extremity of Shropshire, it appears a beautiful object from the various parts of the interesting surrounding district. In the interior the greatest part of it is well and uniformly built of brick; the Public Structures remarkable for their convenience and neatness; the streets, which rise by gradual ascent from all extremities of the town, are wide, excellently paved, lighted, always dry, and remarkably clean. The soil is partly rocky, and partly dry gravel: The air, mild and salubrious. The objects of attraction and curiosity within the town are not numerous; but an air of neatness and elegant simplicity pervades every part of it. LUDLOW B NUMBER OF INHABITANTS, &c. LUDLOW was surrounded by a wall one mile in compass, part of which still remains, with seven gates, but of these gates one only is now standing. It is nearly a mile in length, and half a mile in breadth. Contains upwards of 800 houses, and nearly 4000 inhabitants, of which number about three-fifths are females. About six hundred are employed in trades and manufactures. Here are resident many opulent families, natives; and also many families of independent fortune from Ireland and different parts of England. Churchyard, who wrote during the reign of Elizabeth, remarks of this place, "The Town doth stand most part upon an hill, "Built well and fayre, with streets both large and wide, "The houses such where strangers lodge at will, As long as there the councill lists abide: "Both fine and clean the streets are all throughout, Streets and Public Structures. At the entrance to the town from the London road is LUDFORD BRIDGE, from which enter' TEME STREET, and pass under Broad Street Gate which has a dwelling house at top, leads to BROAD STREET, a part of the town much resorted to by the inhabitants as an agreeable and fashionable promenade. The attention is involuntarily arrested with the view of a neat stone building at the upper end of this street, called The |