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Hereford; and the Tenbury and Bewdley; while a bill has been obtained to make a line from Tenbury to Worcester, along the vale of the Teme, but in the present state of the railway market the "sinews" are not forthcoming.

Another attractive feature of the little town - or rather its neighbourhood - is the College of St. Michael, an institution founded by the Rev. Sir F. Gore Ouseley, at an outlay of more than £20,000, to carry out the musical, classical, and religious education of young men in the principles of the Church of England, after the manner of Radley, Bradfield, and other places. There is a splendid church in connection with the College, wherein full choral services are performed daily.

Tenbury old church was destroyed, except the tower and chancel, by a flood from the Teme in the year 1770. Two years ago the structure was again restored, at a cost of about £3,000; it contains some interesting monuments - one a remarkably good specimen of the Elizabethan period, which has the additional interest attaching to it of having been erected by the wife of the Sir Thomas Lucy who is said to have prosecuted Shakespeare for deer stealing, and who has been immortalized by the great dramatist in one of his plays. These will well repay a visit from the antiquary. The living is in the diocese of Hereford; value, £740; Rev. T. Ayscough Smith vicar and patron. Formerly the living of Rochford was united with Tenbury, but they were separated by an order of Privy Council in 1843, and the Rev. E. T. Bowden is now rector of the former place 4 Mr. J. P. Jones patron; value, £400; a small Norman church, also restored in 1865. There are two Dissenting chapels - Baptist and Primitive Methodist.

Previous to 1858 the business of the corn-market here was transacted in the streets, but in that year a corn exchange and butter and poultry market were opened, a company having been formed for the purpose. A Tuesday's market and a fair on July 6 and 7 were granted to the town by Henry III, but there are now six fairs in the year.