July 2021 was another satisfactory month with many events, and with 25 items of information being received from 21 contributors, bringing the total up to 8926 items from 3005 contributors.  Contributions received as a result of two walks organised by the Shropshire branch of the Society for the Protection of Rural England, on 30 and 31 July,  have yet to be analysed and added to these totals.

Image:  Pre-Raphaelite style window depicting ‘Purity’, and featuring numerous Madonna lilies, Lilium candidum, in St John the Baptist church, Bishops Castle, Shropshire: ‘To the glory of God, and in memory of Anna wife of Francis Temple, who died at Bishops Castle, 21st January 1885, aged 32 years, Blessed are the pure in heart’; July 2021.