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Trade directories: Produce and manufactures of Shropshire (Pigot's Directory, 1821-1822)

Produce, Manufactures, Minerals, 1821-1822 [Shropshire Archive reference: Pigot's Directory, 1821-1822]

PRODUCE, MANUFACTURES and MINERALS - The productions of this county are various and valuable; the breed of cows and sheep deserving particular notice, the former giving large quantities of milk; and much of the cheese sold under the denomination of Cheshire, is produced from the dairies here; the sheep of its hilly tracts affording some of the finest fleeces in the kingdom. The whole county is in general well cultivated, yielding great quantities of grain, its southern border producing excellent hops, and agreeably varied with fine healthy orchards. Rich as this county is in the productions of the field, the treasures extracted from its bowels are not of minor importance: lead, iron, lime-stone, free stone, pipe clay and coals are found in abundance; and in the hundred of North Bradford are salt springs; whilst on the eastern side of the county are a number of extensive iron works, that give employment to hundreds of hands. The manufactures are porcelain and flannel; the former is of great excellence, and in proportionate demand: the latter, though having somewhat receded from its former high importance, is by no means reduced to insignificance.