or, as it used to be written, Doggepole, Dokepoll. “What an outlandish
name!” cries the visitor. It is a strange name, but it expresses a
natural fact. Two interpretations have been given to it—one that
attributes it to the circumstance of a collection of water having existed
in the neighbourhood centuries ago—another that discovers its derivation
in _Ducken_, to bend or stoop, or _Duick_, to duck one’s head, to stoop,
and _poll_, or summit. Dogpole is the head of a bank of steep
descent—the Wyle Cop, which leads to the river. The neat structure on
the right about half-way down is the TABERNACLE of the Welsh
Independents, built as a memorial of 1662 and adjoining it is the
SHROPSHIRE EVE AND EAR HOSPITAL, an institution supported entirely by
voluntary contributions, which is, however, soon to be supplanted by the
extremely handsome structure now in course of erection as a new Eye, Ear
and Throat Hospital, in Murivance, opposite Allatt’s School. At the
bottom of Dogpole we turn to the right and enter