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Its principal manufactures are shoes and hats, and it is noted for excellent ale. The castle, built by the Conqueror, is long ago destroyed. This town was made a borough by king John, at the request of the Staffords who walled it. It has two churches. Two miles eastward is Beacon-hill, a large parcel of rocks on an eminence covered with grass. On St Amor heatli, at the foot of this hill, a battle was fought in the civil war. Penkridge, a small declined market town, on the Penk, 6 miles south of... Stafford, and noted for its great annual horse fair on October 10. Tw^o miles S. S. W. Is Stretton, anciently a Roman station, near Wat- ling Street. In the neighbouring fields Roman coins and other antiqui- ties have been found, 129 H. H. Rudgelei/^ or Rugeley, a little, well built town, between Litchfield and Stafford, on the right hand of the Trent, in the post road to Cheshire and Lancashire, and near a grand inland navigation, 127 H. H. To the south, in Beaudesert-park, is a large fortification called Castle Hill.
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