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Show A Deserted Village. The Blto of tho erstwhllo flourishing village of Urendon Is represented by a few gaunt stone chimneys, a stray cluster ot roofless cottages, a dilapidated dilapi-dated Dissenting chapol, a ghostly railway station and ono fair-sized shop, which serves tho needs ot tho scattered community living on the Urendon Hills, says H. G. Archer, In the Wldo World Magazine. Dut for many yoars tho deserted village was left Just as It was when tho miners occupied It, and as such presented an oxtraordlnary sight silent, grass-grown grass-grown streets of closed houses, shops, Inns and places ot worship. It was only comparatively recently that tho buildings wero razed and the materials ot which they were composed sold ana carried away. To-day tho most tangible tan-gible relic Is found nt the Junction ot the roads Just outside tho village a quaint, squaie, plain building, over tho porchod entrnuco to which Is tho word "Rculah," nnd tho date of erection, 1SG1. This Is ono ot tho little chapels built for thu miners. No attempt has been made to pieservo It from decay, . and not so long ago the pedestrians could stroll In and'llnd tho sunlight streaming through tho translucent window's nnd their borders of-colored glass, making tho Interior grotesquely I gay. Tho pulpit and pows then re-niaincd, re-niaincd, and many ot the cards affixed I to tho bonk-rcsts and Inscribed with tho seat-holders' namos weie, yet to be seen. |