The rural area around the Severn
valley was remote from the authorities
in the local towns, and it was always difficult to police this upland
area.
Newtown grew rapidly and had a population
of desperately poor people. To some, crime was a way out of their difficulties.
Policing improved in the Victorian period and the punishments given to criminals changed greatly, but not before the area experienced some troubled times.
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