284 BICH.A.RD'e CASTLE. RICHARD'S CASTLE. ICHARD'S CASTLE is a parish and village, with the townsMps of WOOFFERTON, OVEBTON, BATcHco!rT, and MOOR, 4 miles south.. west from , 6 from , and 3 from Woofferton railway station, ill Hundred, Ludlow Union, South , Salop archdeaconry. and Hereford bishopric. The village of Richard's Castle is in , and is situated on the old road from Ludlow to Leo. minster. The church ofSt. Bartholomew is a fine structure. The tower stands a few feet from the body ofthe church, and had formerl, a spire, which was burnt down. The windows contain some beautiful stained glass. The living is a rectory, worth £650 yearly, with residence and III acres of glebe land, in the gift of the Bishop of Worcestet. The population, in 1851, was 657, and the acreage is 4,871 acres, which includes that portion of the parish in Herefordshire. RICHA.RD'S CASTLE was erected before the conquest, by Richard Scrape, in the reign of Edward the Confessor. At the period of Doomsday survey, it was possessed by Osborne Fitz-Richard, whose grand-daughter Margaret, conveyed it, by marriage, to Robert de Mortimer, from whose family, by an heiress also, it passed to the Talbots, and subsequently to the Salweys. On the declivity of the eminence contiguous to the castle, a body of royalists were defeated with great slaughter by Colonel Birch. Robert de Mortimer procured from King John, a charter of a market and fair for this manor. Near to here is BONE WELL, so named from its being always full of small bones, though oftentimes cleaned out. The cause of this extraordinary and unparalleled curiosity of nature has bafHed the most learned philosophers to discover; Camden conjectures the bones to be those of fish. About three miles from Bone.well is another spring, much smaller, but of a similar kind. • WOOFFERTON ill a township and railway station, distant 5 miles from Ludlow. Barrett's Mill is a place here. OVERTON is a township, distant 2! miles from Ludlow. It was a Roman settlement. Hucksbarn is a farm. BATCHCOTT and MOOR is a township, distant 2:1" miles from Ludlow; and the1>rincipallandowners are Richard Betton, Esq., aDd F. L. Charton, Esq. LETTERS arrive from Ludlow at 10 a.m., and are despatched at a! to 5 p.m. The nearest money order office is at Ludlow. RICHARD'S CASTLE. FARMERS. MISCELLANEOUS. Frogget~ James, the Berry Green RIchard, Mere field Child Miss Ann, Westbrook cottage Mapp Charles, Church house Hardeman Richard, Salway Arms Inn Mason Richard, the Green Jent Thomas, tailor MasoR George, Rock Mapp John, Esq. Oseland Henry, (& horse trainer), Wood ho Taylor Mrs. Marthll, the Bank Parker Thomas, Pigeon house Taylor Mary, Castle Inn Ridglel Benjamin, Lower house Taylor Thomas, shoemaker , Roberts J ames Walker Charles, BiIbury