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![[picture: The book cover for ``The Story of Some English Shires'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Creighton-EnglishShires/tn/000-Cover-q75-404x500.jpg "[picture: The book cover for ``The Story of Some English Shires'']")
Pictures from The Story of Some English Shires by Mandell Creighton, D.D., Lord Bishop of London (1843 – 1901). My copy says there were one hundred and fifty copies made.
There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Mandell Creighton.
Title: The Story of Some English Shires
City: London
Date: 1897
Total items: 14
Out of copyright (called public domain in the USA), hence royalty-free for all purposes usage credit requested, or as marked.
![[picture: Prestbury Old Hall]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Creighton-EnglishShires/wm/big/151-Prestbury-Old-Hall-q75-246x200.jpg "[picture: Prestbury Old Hall]")
![[picture: The book cover for ``The Story of Some English Shires'']](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Creighton-EnglishShires/wm/big/000-Cover-q75-162x200.jpg "[picture: The book cover for ``The Story of Some English Shires'']")
The book cover for “The Story of Some English Shires”
Green and gold book cover. [$]
![[picture: Edgar's Gateway, Worcester]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Creighton-EnglishShires/wm/big/205-Edgar's-Gateway,-Worcester-q75-234x200.jpg "[picture: Edgar's Gateway, Worcester]")
The engraving (signed Whymper) is of Edgar Tower, also known as St Mary’s Gate, an arched and defended stone tower guarding a gateway in the city wall. It was thought to have been build in the 10th Century by Edgar, but in fact is now believed to be slightly more recent (14th century). [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Hinchinbrook House, Huntingdon]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Creighton-EnglishShires/wm/big/308-Hinchinbrook-House-Huntingdon-q75-218x200.jpg "[picture: Hinchinbrook House, Huntingdon]")
Hinchinbrook House, Huntingdon
Queen Elizabeth I was entertained here in 1564 by the owner and original builder, Henry, grandson of one Morgan Williams of Glamorganshire, wife to the sister of Oliver Comwell. The house was sold in [...] [more...] [$]
![[picture: Much Wenlock Abbey (Wenlock Priory)]](https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Creighton-EnglishShires/wm/big/164-Much-Wenlock-Abbey-q75-267x200.jpg "[picture: Much Wenlock Abbey (Wenlock Priory)]")
Much Wenlock Abbey (Wenlock Priory)
A man stands smoking his pipe in the ruined arch of this ancient abbey. Sheep gaze on are much away at the grass growing in the ruins of the cloisters. The man is presumably a shepherd, although it’s not clear that his walking-stick [...] [more...] [$]
Pictures from The Story of Some English Shires by Mandell Creighton, D.D., Lord Bishop of London (1843 – 1901). My copy says there were one hundred and fifty copies made.
There is also an entry in the Nuttall Encyclopædia for Mandell Creighton.
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