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<ul id="toc-Railways-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Buses" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Buses"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.2</span> <span>Buses</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Buses-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Roads" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Roads"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.3</span> <span>Roads</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Roads-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Cycling" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Cycling"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.4</span> <span>Cycling</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Cycling-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Walking" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Walking"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">5.5</span> <span>Walking</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Walking-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Culture" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Culture"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6</span> <span>Culture</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Culture-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Culture subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Culture-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Festivals_and_fairs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Festivals_and_fairs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.1</span> <span>Festivals and fairs</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Festivals_and_fairs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Gastronomy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Gastronomy"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.2</span> <span>Gastronomy</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Gastronomy-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Arts" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Arts"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.3</span> <span>Arts</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Arts-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sport" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sport"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.4</span> <span>Sport</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sport-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Media" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Media"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.5</span> <span>Media</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Media-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Newspapers" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Newspapers"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.5.1</span> <span>Newspapers</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Newspapers-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Television" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Television"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.5.2</span> <span>Television</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Television-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Radio_stations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Radio_stations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">6.5.3</span> <span>Radio stations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Radio_stations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Governance" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Governance"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7</span> <span>Governance</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Governance-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle Governance subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-Governance-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Civic" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Civic"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Civic</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Civic-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Electoral_arrangements" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Electoral_arrangements"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Electoral arrangements</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Electoral_arrangements-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Civil_parishes" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Civil_parishes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.3</span> <span>Civil parishes</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Civil_parishes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Parliament" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Parliament"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.4</span> <span>Parliament</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Parliament-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Economy" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a 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vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Landmarks"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">13</span> <span>Landmarks</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Landmarks-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Twinning" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Twinning"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">14</span> <span>Twinning</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Twinning-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Notable_people" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Notable_people"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">15</span> <span>Notable people</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Notable_people-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-See_also" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#See_also"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">16</span> <span>See also</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-See_also-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">17</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">18</span> <span>References</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">19</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" 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href="https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88" title="لودلاو – South Azerbaijani" lang="azb" hreflang="azb" data-title="لودلاو" data-language-autonym="تۆرکجه" data-language-local-name="South Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>تۆرکجه</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-zh-min-nan mw-list-item"><a href="https://zh-min-nan.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_(Shropshire)" title="Ludlow (Shropshire) – Minnan" lang="nan" hreflang="nan" data-title="Ludlow (Shropshire)" data-language-autonym="閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú" data-language-local-name="Minnan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩南語 / Bân-lâm-gú</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9B%D1%8A%D0%B4%D0%BB%D0%BE%D1%83" title="Лъдлоу – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Лъдлоу" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_(Anglaterra)" title="Ludlow (Anglaterra) – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Ludlow (Anglaterra)" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ceb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ceb.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_(lungsod_sa_Hiniusang_Gingharian,_Inglatera,_Shropshire,_lat_52,37,_long_-2,71)" title="Ludlow (lungsod sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Shropshire, lat 52,37, long -2,71) – Cebuano" lang="ceb" hreflang="ceb" data-title="Ludlow (lungsod sa Hiniusang Gingharian, Inglatera, Shropshire, lat 52,37, long -2,71)" data-language-autonym="Cebuano" data-language-local-name="Cebuano" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cebuano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Llwydlo" title="Llwydlo – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Llwydlo" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Ludlow" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Ludlow" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es mw-list-item"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_(Shropshire)" title="Ludlow (Shropshire) – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Ludlow (Shropshire)" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Ludlow" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Ludlow" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%84%D8%A7%D9%88" title="لودلاو – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="لودلاو" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr mw-list-item"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Ludlow" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow" title="Ludlow – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Ludlow" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_(Regno_Unito)" title="Ludlow (Regno Unito) – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Ludlow (Regno Unito)" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ladlou" title="Ladlou – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Ladlou" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_(Anglia)" title="Ludlow (Anglia) – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Ludlow (Anglia)" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%84%D9%88%D8%AF%D9%84%D9%88_(%D8%AA%D8%AC%D9%85%D8%B9_%D8%B3%D9%83%D8%A7%D9%86_%D9%81%D9%89_%D8%B4%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%BE%D8%B4%D9%8A%D8%B1)" title="لودلو (تجمع 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#aaa;padding-top:3px}.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place td,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place th{border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0.4em 0.6em 0.4em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedtoprow .infobox-label,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedtoprow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedtoprow .infobox-full-data{border-top:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0.4em 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedrow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedrow .infobox-header,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedrow .infobox-label{border:0;padding:0 0.6em 0.2em 0.6em}.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedbottomrow .infobox-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedbottomrow .infobox-full-data,.mw-parser-output .ib-uk-place .mergedbottomrow .infobox-label{border-top:0;border-bottom:1px solid #a2a9b1;padding:0 0.6em 0.4em 0.6em}</style><table class="infobox ib-uk-place vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above fn org nowrap">Ludlow</th></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><div style="background-color:white;border-collapse:collapse;border:1px solid white;width:250px;display:table;margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><div style="display:table-row"><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:2px 0 0 2px"><div style="display:table;background-color:white;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="display:table-row"><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:0 2px 2px 0"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludlow,_Shropshire.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg/250px-Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="167" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg/375px-Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5e/Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg/500px-Ludlow%2C_Shropshire.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1365" /></a></span></div></div></div><div style="display:table;background-color:white;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="display:table-row"><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:0 2px 2px 0"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Town_of_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5766754.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/The_Town_of_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5766754.jpg/124px-The_Town_of_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5766754.jpg" decoding="async" width="124" height="70" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/The_Town_of_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5766754.jpg/186px-The_Town_of_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5766754.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/The_Town_of_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5766754.jpg/248px-The_Town_of_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5766754.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1920" data-file-height="1080" /></a></span></div><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:0 2px 2px 0"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludlow_Landscape_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5687930.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Ludlow_Landscape_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5687930.jpg/124px-Ludlow_Landscape_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5687930.jpg" decoding="async" width="124" height="93" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Ludlow_Landscape_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5687930.jpg/186px-Ludlow_Landscape_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5687930.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c7/Ludlow_Landscape_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5687930.jpg/248px-Ludlow_Landscape_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5687930.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3264" data-file-height="2448" /></a></span></div></div></div><div style="display:table;background-color:white;border-collapse:collapse"><div style="display:table-row"><div style="display:table-cell;border-top:0;padding:0 2px 2px 0"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:St._Laurence%27s_Church_(Ludlow)_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5764925.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/St._Laurence%27s_Church_%28Ludlow%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5764925.jpg/250px-St._Laurence%27s_Church_%28Ludlow%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5764925.jpg" decoding="async" width="250" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/St._Laurence%27s_Church_%28Ludlow%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5764925.jpg/375px-St._Laurence%27s_Church_%28Ludlow%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5764925.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/00/St._Laurence%27s_Church_%28Ludlow%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5764925.jpg/500px-St._Laurence%27s_Church_%28Ludlow%29_-_geograph.org.uk_-_5764925.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1360" /></a></span></div></div></div></div></div></div><div>Clockwise from top: Junction of Broad Street and King Street, with the Buttercross, Ludlow skyline, <a href="/wiki/St_Laurence%27s_Church,_Ludlow" title="St Laurence's Church, Ludlow">St Laurence's Church</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Castle" title="Ludlow Castle">Ludlow Castle</a>.</div></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png/100px-Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png" decoding="async" width="100" height="117" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png/150px-Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png/200px-Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png 2x" data-file-width="877" data-file-height="1023" /></a></span><div>Coat of arms of Ludlow</div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238443738">.mw-parser-output .locmap .od{position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .id{position:absolute;line-height:0}.mw-parser-output .locmap .l0{font-size:0;position:absolute}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv{line-height:110%;position:absolute;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr{line-height:110%;position:absolute;top:-0.75em;text-align:left}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pv>div{display:inline;padding:1px}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pl>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:right}.mw-parser-output .locmap .pr>div{display:inline;padding:1px;float:left}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pv>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od .pl>div,html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .od 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typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Shropshire_UK_location_map.svg" class="mw-file-description" title="Ludlow is located in Shropshire"><img alt="Ludlow is located in Shropshire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Shropshire_UK_location_map.svg/240px-Shropshire_UK_location_map.svg.png" decoding="async" width="240" height="261" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Shropshire_UK_location_map.svg/360px-Shropshire_UK_location_map.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Shropshire_UK_location_map.svg/480px-Shropshire_UK_location_map.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1198" data-file-height="1305" /></a></span><div class="od notheme" style="top:87.105%;left:46.261%;font-size:91%"><div class="id" style="left:-3px;top:-3px"><span class="notpageimage" typeof="mw:File"><span title="Ludlow"><img alt="Ludlow" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/6px-Red_pog.svg.png" decoding="async" width="6" height="6" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/9px-Red_pog.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0c/Red_pog.svg/12px-Red_pog.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="64" data-file-height="64" /></span></span></div><div class="pr" style="width:6em;left:4px"><div>Ludlow</div></div></div></div><div style="padding-top:0.2em">Location within <a href="/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire">Shropshire</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Population</th><td class="infobox-data">10,266 (2011)<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ordnance_Survey_National_Grid" title="Ordnance Survey National Grid">OS grid reference</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bing.com/maps/?mkt=en-gb&v=2&cp=52.367265~-2.718134&lvl=13&sp=Point.52.367265_-2.718134_Ludlow&sty=s&style=s">SO512746</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedbottomrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">• <a href="/wiki/London" title="London">London</a></th><td class="infobox-data">154 miles (248 km)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">Civil parish</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li>Ludlow</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Districts_of_England" title="Districts of England">Unitary authority</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_(district)" title="Shropshire (district)">Shropshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Ceremonial_counties_of_England" title="Ceremonial counties of England">Ceremonial county</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire">Shropshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Regions_of_England" title="Regions of England">Region</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(region)" title="West Midlands (region)">West Midlands</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow adr"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Countries_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Countries of the United Kingdom">Country</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><span class="country-name"><a href="/wiki/England" title="England">England</a></span></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_sovereign_states" title="List of sovereign states">Sovereign state</a></th><td class="infobox-data">United Kingdom</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Post_town" title="Post town">Post town</a></th><td class="infobox-data">LUDLOW</td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Postcodes_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Postcodes in the United Kingdom">Postcode district</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/SY_postcode_area" title="SY postcode area">SY8</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Telephone_numbers_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Telephone numbers in the United Kingdom">Dialling code</a></th><td class="infobox-data">01584</td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/List_of_law_enforcement_agencies_in_the_United_Kingdom,_Crown_Dependencies_and_British_Overseas_Territories" title="List of law enforcement agencies in the United Kingdom, Crown Dependencies and British Overseas Territories">Police</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/West_Mercia_Police" title="West Mercia Police">West Mercia</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Fire_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Fire services in the United Kingdom">Fire</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service">Shropshire</a></td></tr><tr class="mergedrow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Emergency_medical_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Emergency medical services in the United Kingdom">Ambulance</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_Ambulance_Service" title="West Midlands Ambulance Service">West Midlands</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Constituencies_of_the_Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Constituencies of the Parliament of the United Kingdom">UK Parliament</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1126788409"><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/South_Shropshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)">South Shropshire</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr class="mergedtoprow"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Website</th><td class="infobox-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ludlow.org.uk/">www.ludlow.org.uk</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below noprint nowrap"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">.mw-parser-output .hlist dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul{margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt,.mw-parser-output .hlist li{margin:0;display:inline}.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist.inline ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist dl ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ol,.mw-parser-output .hlist ol ul,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul dl,.mw-parser-output .hlist ul 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dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dd li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt li:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dd:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li dt:last-child::after,.mw-parser-output .hlist li li:last-child::after{content:")";font-weight:normal}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol{counter-reset:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li{counter-increment:listitem}.mw-parser-output .hlist ol>li::before{content:" "counter(listitem)"\a0 "}.mw-parser-output .hlist dd ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist dt ol>li:first-child::before,.mw-parser-output .hlist li ol>li:first-child::before{content:" ("counter(listitem)"\a0 "}</style><div class="hlist"> <dl><dt><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r886047488">.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}</style><span class="nobold">List of places</span></dt> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_United_Kingdom_locations" title="List of United Kingdom locations">UK</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_England" title="List of places in England">England</a></dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/List_of_places_in_Shropshire" title="List of places in Shropshire">Shropshire</a></dd></dl></div> <span class="geo-inline"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1156832818">.mw-parser-output .geo-default,.mw-parser-output .geo-dms,.mw-parser-output .geo-dec{display:inline}.mw-parser-output .geo-nondefault,.mw-parser-output .geo-multi-punct,.mw-parser-output .geo-inline-hidden{display:none}.mw-parser-output .longitude,.mw-parser-output .latitude{white-space:nowrap}</style><span class="plainlinks nourlexpansion"><a class="external text" href="https://geohack.toolforge.org/geohack.php?pagename=Ludlow&params=52.368_N_2.718_W_type:city(10,000)_region:GB-SHR"><span class="geo-nondefault"><span class="geo-dms" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location"><span class="latitude">52°22′05″N</span> <span class="longitude">2°43′05″W</span></span></span><span class="geo-multi-punct"> / </span><span class="geo-default"><span class="geo-dec" title="Maps, aerial photos, and other data for this location">52.368°N 2.718°W</span><span style="display:none"> / <span class="geo">52.368; -2.718</span></span></span></a></span></span></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Ludlow</b> (<span class="rt-commentedText nowrap"><span class="IPA nopopups noexcerpt" lang="en-fonipa"><a href="/wiki/Help:IPA/English" title="Help:IPA/English">/<span style="border-bottom:1px dotted"><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/ʌ/: 'u' in 'cut'">ʌ</span><span title="'d' in 'dye'">d</span><span title="/./: syllable break">.</span><span title="'l' in 'lie'">l</span><span title="/oʊ/: 'o' in 'code'">oʊ</span></span>/</a></span></span>) is a <a href="/wiki/Market_town" title="Market town">market town</a> and <a href="/wiki/Civil_parish" title="Civil parish">civil parish</a> in <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_(district)" title="Shropshire (district)">Shropshire</a>, England. It is located 28 miles (45 km) south of <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury" title="Shrewsbury">Shrewsbury</a> and 23 miles (37 km) north of <a href="/wiki/Hereford" title="Hereford">Hereford</a>, on the <a href="/wiki/A49_road_(Great_Britain)" class="mw-redirect" title="A49 road (Great Britain)">A49 road</a> which bypasses the town. The town is near the confluence of the rivers <a href="/wiki/River_Corve" title="River Corve">Corve</a> and <a href="/wiki/River_Teme" title="River Teme">Teme</a>. </p><p>The oldest part is the <a href="/wiki/Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">medieval</a> <a href="/wiki/Defensive_wall" title="Defensive wall">walled town</a>, founded in the late 11th century after the <a href="/wiki/Norman_Conquest" title="Norman Conquest">Norman conquest of England</a>. It is centred on a small hill which lies on the eastern bank of a bend of the River Teme. Situated on this hill are <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Castle" title="Ludlow Castle">Ludlow Castle</a> and the parish church, <a href="/wiki/St_Laurence%27s_Church,_Ludlow" title="St Laurence's Church, Ludlow">St Laurence's</a>, the largest in the county.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From there the streets slope downward to the rivers <a href="/wiki/River_Corve" title="River Corve">Corve</a> and <a href="/wiki/River_Teme" title="River Teme">Teme</a>, to the north and south respectively. The town is in a sheltered spot beneath <a href="/wiki/Mortimer_Forest" title="Mortimer Forest">Mortimer Forest</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Clee_Hills" title="Clee Hills">Clee Hills</a>, which are clearly visible from the town.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ludlow has nearly 500 <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed buildings</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including examples of medieval and <a href="/wiki/Tudor_architecture" title="Tudor architecture">Tudor</a>-style <a href="/wiki/Half-timbered" class="mw-redirect" title="Half-timbered">half-timbered</a> buildings. The town was described by Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Betjeman" title="John Betjeman">John Betjeman</a> as "probably the loveliest town in England".<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Toponymy">Toponymy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Toponymy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The thirteenth century romance <a href="/wiki/Fouke_le_Fitz_Waryn#Romance_of_Fouke_le_Fitz_Waryn" title="Fouke le Fitz Waryn"><i>Fouke le Fitz Waryn</i></a> records that Ludlow had been called <b>Dinam</b> "for a very long time". It is also known that <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Castle" title="Ludlow Castle">Ludlow Castle</a> was originally named Dinham Castle when it was constructed in the eleventh century, even today the area immediately south of the castle retains the original name.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Lewis_(publisher)" title="Samuel Lewis (publisher)">Samuel Lewis</a> states that while <i>Leadlowe</i> and <i>Ludlowe</i> were the Saxon names for the town, the <a href="/wiki/Celtic_Britons" title="Celtic Britons">British</a> name was <i>Dinam</i>, which he translates as "The Palace of Princes". The <a href="/wiki/Modern_Welsh" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern Welsh">Modern Welsh</a> name for the town is <b>Llwydlo</b>.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>Lodelowe</i> was in use for this site before 1138 and comes from the <a href="/wiki/Old_English" title="Old English">Old English</a> "hlud-hlǣw".<sup id="cite_ref-Room_2003_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Room_2003-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-toponymy75_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toponymy75-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the time this section of the <a href="/wiki/River_Teme" title="River Teme">River Teme</a> contained rapids, and so the <i>hlud</i> of Ludlow came from "the loud waters", while <i>hlǣw</i> meant "hill"<sup id="cite_ref-Room_2003_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Room_2003-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or <a href="/wiki/Tumulus" title="Tumulus">tumulus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus the name <b>Ludlow</b> describes a <i>place on a hill by the loud waters</i>. Some time around the 12th century, <a href="/wiki/Weir" title="Weir">weirs</a> were added along the river, taming these rapid flows.<sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The hill is that which the town stands on, and a pre-historic burial mound (or barrow) which existed at the eastern summit of the hill (dug up during the expansion of St Laurence's church in 1199) could explain the tumulus variation of the <i>hlǣw</i> element.<sup id="cite_ref-toponymy75_11-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-toponymy75-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-poulton_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-poulton-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ludford,_Shropshire" title="Ludford, Shropshire">Ludford</a>, a neighbouring and older settlement, situated on the southern bank of the Teme, shares the <i>hlud</i> ("loud waters") element.<sup id="cite_ref-poulton_14-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-poulton-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="History">History</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/History_of_Shropshire" title="History of Shropshire">History of Shropshire</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Castle" title="Ludlow Castle">Ludlow Castle</a></div> <p>The town is situated close to <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a>, and lies near the midpoint of the 257-kilometre-long (160 mi) <a href="/wiki/England%E2%80%93Wales_border" title="England–Wales border">England–Wales border</a>; it is also very close to the county border between Shropshire and <a href="/wiki/Herefordshire" title="Herefordshire">Herefordshire</a> (neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Ludford,_Shropshire" title="Ludford, Shropshire">Ludford</a> remained part of Herefordshire until 1895). This strategic location invested it with national importance in <a href="/wiki/Medieval" class="mw-redirect" title="Medieval">medieval</a> times, and thereafter with the town being the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Wales_and_the_Marches" title="Council of Wales and the Marches">Council of Wales and the Marches</a> during its existence (1472 to 1689).<sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Medieval_history">Medieval history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Medieval history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe,_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg/220px-Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg/330px-Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/54/Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg/440px-Ludlow_Castle_from_Whitcliffe%2C_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="425" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Castle" title="Ludlow Castle">Ludlow Castle</a>, built in the late 11th century.</figcaption></figure> <p>At the time of the <a href="/wiki/Domesday_Book" title="Domesday Book">Domesday Book</a> survey, the area was part of the large <a href="/wiki/Stanton_Lacy" title="Stanton Lacy">Stanton</a> parish and <a href="/wiki/Manorialism" title="Manorialism">manor</a>, a possession of <a href="/wiki/Walter_de_Lacy_(died_1085)" class="mw-redirect" title="Walter de Lacy (died 1085)">Walter de Lacy</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Neither Ludlow nor Dinham are mentioned in the Book, compiled in 1086, although the Book recorded manors and not settlements <i>per se</i>. The Book does record a great number of households and taxable value for Stanton, perhaps suggesting that any early settlement by the nascent castle was being counted. Neighbouring places Ludford, the Sheet and Steventon do feature in the Book, as they were manors, proving that they were well-established places by the Norman conquest.<sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The manor of Stanton came within the <a href="/wiki/Hundred_(county_division)" title="Hundred (county division)">hundred</a> of <a href="/wiki/Culvestan" title="Culvestan">Culvestan</a>, but during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Henry_I_of_England" title="Henry I of England">Henry I</a> this Saxon hundred was merged into the new <a href="/wiki/Munslow_(hundred)" title="Munslow (hundred)">Munslow</a> hundred.<sup id="cite_ref-18" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Walter's son <a href="/wiki/Roger_de_Lacy" title="Roger de Lacy">Roger de Lacy</a> began the construction of <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Castle" title="Ludlow Castle">Ludlow Castle</a> on the western <a href="/wiki/Promontory" title="Promontory">promontory</a> of the hill about 1075, forming what is now the inner <a href="/wiki/Ward_(fortification)" class="mw-redirect" title="Ward (fortification)">bailey</a>. Between about 1090 and 1120, the Chapel of <a href="/wiki/St._Mary_Magdalene" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Mary Magdalene">St. Mary Magdalene</a> was built inside the walls, and by 1130 the Great Tower was added to form the <a href="/wiki/Gatehouse" title="Gatehouse">gatehouse</a>. About 1170 the larger outer bailey was added to the castle. (The town walls however were not built until the mid-13th century.) The settlement of Dinham grew up alongside the development of the early castle in the late 11th century, with the northern part of this early settlement disturbed by the building of the outer bailey.<sup id="cite_ref-origins_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-origins-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Dinham had its own place of worship, the Chapel of St Thomas the Martyr, dedicated to <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Becket" title="Thomas Becket">Thomas Becket</a> sometime in 1177–1189 when the present chapel replaced an older (late 11th-century) church building.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the 12th century, the planned town of Ludlow was formed, in stages, the town providing a useful source of income for successive <a href="/wiki/Marcher_Lords" class="mw-redirect" title="Marcher Lords">Marcher Lords</a>, based on rents, fines, and tolls. They developed the town on a regular grid pattern, although this was adapted somewhat to match the local <a href="/wiki/Topography" title="Topography">topography</a>, from the late 11th century through the 12th century. The first laid street was along the ridge of the hilltop, what is now Castle Square, High Street and King Street. This formed a wide market place (later in-filled by buildings in places) running from the castle gates east across to St Laurence's and the Bull Ring, itself located on the ancient north–south road, now called Corve Street to the north and Old Street to the south. The wide Mill and Broad Streets were added later, as part of a southern grid plan of streets and <a href="/wiki/Burgage_plot" class="mw-redirect" title="Burgage plot">burgage plots</a> filling the area bounded by Dinham, the new High Street market, Old Street and the Teme to the south.<sup id="cite_ref-origins_19-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-origins-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Originally, Old Street ran down to a <a href="/wiki/Ford_(crossing)" title="Ford (crossing)">ford</a> which took the ancient route south across to <a href="/wiki/Ludford,_Shropshire" title="Ludford, Shropshire">Ludford</a>. A bridge was constructed (possibly by <a href="/wiki/Josce_de_Dinan" title="Josce de Dinan">Josce de Dinan</a>) at the foot of Broad Street, upstream of the ford, which then replaced the ford; its 15th-century replacement is the present-day <a href="/wiki/Ludford_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Ludford Bridge">Ludford Bridge</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/St_Laurence%27s_Church,_Ludlow" title="St Laurence's Church, Ludlow">St Laurence's church</a>, whose origins are late 11th century, was rebuilt and enlarged (with a bell tower) in 1199-1200<sup id="cite_ref-origins_19-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-origins-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and became a parish church, with the separation of Ludlow from the <a href="/wiki/Parish" title="Parish">parish</a> of Stanton Lacy by 1200. The town notably had two schools (a choir and a grammar) in existence <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1200</span>;<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Grammar_School" class="mw-redirect" title="Ludlow Grammar School">Ludlow Grammar School</a> remained in existence until 1977, when it became Ludlow College.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Castle_square_ludlow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Castle_square_ludlow.jpg/170px-Castle_square_ludlow.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="267" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Castle_square_ludlow.jpg/255px-Castle_square_ludlow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c8/Castle_square_ludlow.jpg/340px-Castle_square_ludlow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="382" data-file-height="599" /></a><figcaption>The town's outdoor market, in Castle Square, photographed from St Laurence's Church</figcaption></figure> <p>Ludlow Castle was an important border fortification along the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Marches" title="Welsh Marches">Welsh Marches</a>, and one of the largest in the Norman/English ring of castles surrounding Wales. It played a significant role in local, regional and national conflicts such as the <a href="/wiki/Owain_Glynd%C5%B5r" title="Owain Glyndŵr">Owain Glyndŵr</a> rebellion, the <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses" title="Wars of the Roses">Wars of the Roses</a> and the <a href="/wiki/English_Civil_War" title="English Civil War">English Civil War</a>. The castle and its adjoining town grew in political importance and in the 15th century the castle became the seat of the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Wales_and_the_Marches" title="Council of Wales and the Marches">Council of Wales and the Marches</a>. It was a temporary home to several holders of the title <a href="/wiki/Prince_of_Wales" title="Prince of Wales">Prince of Wales</a>, including <a href="/wiki/Edward_V_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward V of England">King Edward V</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Tudor" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthur Tudor">Arthur Tudor</a>, who died there in 1502.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The site features heavily in the folk-story of <a href="/wiki/Fulk_FitzWarin" title="Fulk FitzWarin">Fulk FitzWarin</a>, outlawed Lord of <a href="/wiki/Whittington,_Shropshire" title="Whittington, Shropshire">Whittington, Shropshire</a> and a possible inspiration for the <i><a href="/wiki/Robin_Hood" title="Robin Hood">Robin Hood</a></i> legend. Fulk is brought up in the castle of <a href="/wiki/Josce_de_Dinan" title="Josce de Dinan">Josce de Dinan</a>, and fights for his master against Sir <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_de_Lacy" title="Gilbert de Lacy">Gilbert de Lacy</a> – these battles are the source of the story of Marion de la Bruyere, the betrayed lover whose ghost is still said to be heard screaming as she plummets from the castle's turrets.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The first recorded royal permission to maintain defensive town walls was given to the "men of Ludlow" in the <a href="/wiki/Patent_Rolls" class="mw-redirect" title="Patent Rolls">Patent Rolls</a> of 1233. The entry is however incomplete and atypical and was not renewed in the usual way. A <a href="/wiki/Murage" class="mw-redirect" title="Murage">murage</a> grant was next made in 1260 and renewed regularly over the next two centuries. This time the grant was made by name to <a href="/w/index.php?title=Geoffrey_de_Genevile&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Geoffrey de Genevile (page does not exist)">Geoffrey de Genevile</a>, Lord of Ludlow. From this and other surviving documents it seems that the town walls and gates were in place by 1270.<sup id="cite_ref-train_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-train-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were constructed about the central part of the community with four main gates and three <a href="/wiki/Postern" title="Postern">postern</a> gates. Because the walls were constructed after the development of the town's streets, the positions and names of the four main gates are based on the streets they crossed; the postern gates on the other hand are located by and named after old outlying districts. The 7 gates are (clockwise from the castle; postern gates in <i>italics</i>) <i>Linney</i>, Corve, <i>Galdeford</i>, Old, Broad, Mill and <i>Dinham</i>. An eighth unnamed 'portal' gate (smaller than a postern gate) existed in the wall just to the northwest of the castle, now in the gardens of Castle Walk House.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town walls are largely still in existence, although a section alongside the churchyard of St Lawrence's is, as of 2015, in need of repairs.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The castle complex continued to expand (a Great Hall, kitchen and living quarters were added) and it gained a reputation as a fortified <a href="/wiki/Palace" title="Palace">palace</a>. In 1306 it passed through marriage to the ambitious <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_March" title="Earl of March">Earl of March</a>, <a href="/wiki/Roger_Mortimer,_1st_Earl_of_March" title="Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March">Roger Mortimer, 1st Earl of March</a>. <a href="/wiki/Isabella_of_France" title="Isabella of France">Queen Isabella</a> and her son, the young <a href="/wiki/Edward_III_of_England" title="Edward III of England">Edward III</a>, were entertained at the castle in 1329.<sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marcher_town">Marcher town</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Marcher town"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Feathers_hotel.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Feathers_hotel.jpg/170px-Feathers_hotel.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="260" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Feathers_hotel.jpg/255px-Feathers_hotel.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Feathers_hotel.jpg/340px-Feathers_hotel.jpg 2x" data-file-width="683" data-file-height="1043" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Feathers_Hotel,_Ludlow" title="Feathers Hotel, Ludlow">Feathers Hotel</a>, one of Ludlow's more famous timber-framed buildings.</figcaption></figure> <p>The town prospered, with a population of about 1,725 by 1377,<sup id="cite_ref-medievalpop_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-medievalpop-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and sustained a population of about 2,000 for several centuries thereafter. It was a market town; market day was held on every Thursday throughout the 15th century. In particular, it served as a centre for the sale of <a href="/wiki/Wool" title="Wool">wool</a> and cloth.<sup id="cite_ref-medievalpop_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-medievalpop-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was home to various trades, and in 1372 boasted 12 <a href="/wiki/Guilds" class="mw-redirect" title="Guilds">trade guilds</a> including <a href="/wiki/Metalworker" class="mw-redirect" title="Metalworker">metalworkers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shoemaker" class="mw-redirect" title="Shoemaker">shoemakers</a>, butchers, <a href="/wiki/Draper" title="Draper">drapers</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mercery" title="Mercery">mercers</a>, tailors, <a href="/wiki/Cook_(profession)" title="Cook (profession)">cooks</a>, bakers and probably the most notable in the town, the Palmer's Guild.<sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the mid sixteenth century the London merchant <a href="/wiki/Rowland_Hill_(MP)" title="Rowland Hill (MP)">Sir Rowland Hill</a> gave the money for a new bridge over the Teme, and the annual St. Catherine's fair.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There were <a href="/wiki/Merchant" title="Merchant">merchants</a> of moderate wealth in the town and especially wool merchants, such as Laurence of Ludlow, who lived at nearby <a href="/wiki/Stokesay_Castle" title="Stokesay Castle">Stokesay Castle</a>. The collection and sale of wool and the manufacture of cloth continued to be the primary source of wealth until the 17th century.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>This prosperity is expressed in stone masonry, wood carvings and <a href="/wiki/Stained-glass" class="mw-redirect" title="Stained-glass">stained-glass</a> at <a href="/wiki/St_Laurence_Church,_Ludlow" class="mw-redirect" title="St Laurence Church, Ludlow">St. Laurence</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Parish_church" title="Parish church">parish church</a>; effectively a <a href="/wiki/Wool_church" title="Wool church">wool church</a>, it is the largest in <a href="/wiki/Shropshire" title="Shropshire">Shropshire</a> and a member of the <a href="/wiki/Greater_Churches_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="Greater Churches Group">Greater Churches Group</a>. Despite the presence of some <a href="/wiki/Decorated_Period" class="mw-redirect" title="Decorated Period">Decorated</a> work it is largely <a href="/wiki/Perpendicular_Period" class="mw-redirect" title="Perpendicular Period">Perpendicular</a> in style.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its size and grandeur has given it the nickname "the <a href="/wiki/Cathedral" title="Cathedral">cathedral</a> of the Marches", and from 1981 to 2020 there was a <a href="/wiki/Suffragan_bishop" title="Suffragan bishop">suffragan</a> <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Ludlow" title="Bishop of Ludlow">Bishop of Ludlow</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>During the <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses" title="Wars of the Roses">Wars of the Roses</a>, the castle—which he held through his Mortimer inheritance—was one of <a href="/wiki/Richard_of_York,_3rd_Duke_of_York" title="Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York">Richard, Duke of York</a>'s main strongholds.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/House_of_Lancaster" title="House of Lancaster">Lancastrian</a> forces captured Ludlow in 1459, at the <a href="/wiki/Rout_of_Ludford_Bridge" title="Rout of Ludford Bridge">Rout of Ludford Bridge</a>, but the <a href="/wiki/House_of_York" title="House of York">Yorkists</a> won control of England in 1461. The castle became property of the Crown, passing to Richard's son, <a href="/wiki/Edward_IV_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward IV of England">Edward IV</a>. The town rose in prominence under Edward's reign and was incorporated as a <a href="/wiki/Ancient_borough" title="Ancient borough">borough</a>, and began sending <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ludlow (UK Parliament constituency)">representatives to Parliament</a>. Edward set up the <a href="/wiki/Council_of_Wales_and_the_Marches" title="Council of Wales and the Marches">Council of Wales and the Marches</a> in 1472, headquartering it at Ludlow, and sent his son <a href="/wiki/Edward_V_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward V of England">Edward, Prince of Wales</a>, to live there, as nominal (being only a young boy) head of the council. It was at Ludlow that the young prince heard the news of his father's death in 1483 and was himself proclaimed King Edward V of England.<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was from Ludlow that Edward V was brought back to London with his young brother, both to be confined in the Tower of London when, after a short period of time, they were never seen again. </p> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St._Laurence,_Ludlow,_from_west.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/St._Laurence%2C_Ludlow%2C_from_west.jpg/220px-St._Laurence%2C_Ludlow%2C_from_west.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/St._Laurence%2C_Ludlow%2C_from_west.jpg/330px-St._Laurence%2C_Ludlow%2C_from_west.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/St._Laurence%2C_Ludlow%2C_from_west.jpg/440px-St._Laurence%2C_Ludlow%2C_from_west.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/St_Laurence_Church,_Ludlow" class="mw-redirect" title="St Laurence Church, Ludlow">Church of St Laurence</a> has Norman origins and expanded throughout the Middle Ages, being a <a href="/wiki/Wool_church" title="Wool church">wool church</a>, becoming the largest parish church in Shropshire.</figcaption></figure> <p>Under <a href="/wiki/Henry_VII_of_England" title="Henry VII of England">Henry VII</a> the castle continued as the headquarters of the Council of Wales and served as the administration centre for <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> and the counties along the border, known as the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Marches" title="Welsh Marches">Welsh Marches</a>. During this period, when the town served as the effective capital of Wales, it was home to many messengers of the king, various clerks and lawyers for settling legal disputes. The town also provided a winter home for local <a href="/wiki/Gentry" title="Gentry">gentry</a>, during which time they attended the council court sessions. Henry VII sent his heir <a href="/wiki/Arthur,_Prince_of_Wales" title="Arthur, Prince of Wales">Prince Arthur</a> to Ludlow, where he was joined briefly by his wife <a href="/wiki/Catherine_of_Aragon" title="Catherine of Aragon">Catherine of Aragon</a> later to become wife to Henry VIII. Ludlow Castle was therefore the site of perhaps the most controversial honeymoon in English history, when Catherine's claim that the marriage was never consummated became central to the dispute concerning Henry VIII and Catherine's annulment in 1531.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Eventually, the council resumed and except for brief interludes, Ludlow continued to host the council until 1689, when it was abolished by <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">William III</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mary_II_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary II of England">Mary II</a> as part of the <a href="/wiki/Glorious_Revolution" title="Glorious Revolution">Glorious Revolution</a>. The castle then fell into decay. The structure was poorly maintained and the stone was <a href="/wiki/Pillage" class="mw-redirect" title="Pillage">pillaged</a>. In 1772 demolition was mooted, but it was instead decided to lease the buildings. Later still it was purchased by the <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_Powis" title="Earl of Powis">Earl of Powis</a>, and together, he and his wife directed the transformation of the castle grounds.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers" title="Royal Welch Fusiliers">Royal Welch Fusiliers</a> were formed by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Herbert,_4th_Baron_Herbert_of_Chirbury" title="Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury">Henry Herbert, 4th Baron Herbert of Chirbury</a> at Ludlow in March 1689 to oppose <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">James II</a> and to take part in the imminent war with France.<sup id="cite_ref-nam_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-nam-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The regiment continued to have ties with the town of Ludlow, and its successor battalion in The <a href="/wiki/Royal_Welsh" title="Royal Welsh">Royal Welsh</a> regiment was granted the freedom of the town in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="18th_and_19th_centuries">18th and 19th centuries</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: 18th and 19th centuries"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Broad_Gate,_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1744340.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Broad_Gate%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1744340.jpg/170px-Broad_Gate%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1744340.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="196" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Broad_Gate%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1744340.jpg/255px-Broad_Gate%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1744340.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7a/Broad_Gate%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1744340.jpg/340px-Broad_Gate%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1744340.jpg 2x" data-file-width="556" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>Ludlow had seven gates in its town walls; the only one remaining is the Broad Gate (viewed from the south).</figcaption></figure> <p>The town contained several <a href="/wiki/Coaching_inn" title="Coaching inn">coaching inns</a>, <a href="/wiki/Public_house" class="mw-redirect" title="Public house">public houses</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ale" title="Ale">ale</a> houses, leading to court records of some alcohol-induced violence and a certain reputation for excess. Several coaching inns were constructed to accommodate travellers by <a href="/wiki/Stagecoach" title="Stagecoach">stagecoach</a> and <a href="/wiki/Mail_coach" title="Mail coach">mail coach</a>. The Angel on Broad Street was one such notable coaching inn, where several passenger and mail coaches departed and arrived on a regular basis every week, including the <i>Aurora</i> coach which departed for London (taking 27 hours in 1822).<sup id="cite_ref-42" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Angel was the last coaching inn in Ludlow to have such coach traffic, following the arrival of the railways in 1852.<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Angel ceased trading in the early 1990s, though was revived in 2018 as a wine bar occupying a front part of the original establishment. A surviving medieval coaching inn today is the 15th century <a href="/wiki/The_Bull_Hotel,_Ludlow" title="The Bull Hotel, Ludlow">Bull Hotel</a> on the Bull Ring. Several other pubs and hotels in the town have historic pedigree, including the Rose and Crown where allegedly a pub has existed since 1102.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Glove" title="Glove">Glove</a> manufacture was a major industry of the town, peaking in production in 1814.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1802, <a href="/wiki/Horatio_Nelson" class="mw-redirect" title="Horatio Nelson">Horatio Nelson</a> was awarded the freedom of the borough and stayed at The Angel coaching inn on Broad Street, together with his mistress <a href="/wiki/Emma_Hamilton" class="mw-redirect" title="Emma Hamilton">Emma</a> and her husband Sir <a href="/wiki/William_Hamilton_(diplomat)" title="William Hamilton (diplomat)">William Hamilton</a>. The honour was presented to him in a room at the inn, later to be known as the Nelson Room, and he addressed the crowds from one of the bay windows on the first floor.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During the <a href="/wiki/Napoleonic_Wars" title="Napoleonic Wars">Napoleonic Wars</a>, <a href="/wiki/Lucien_Bonaparte" title="Lucien Bonaparte">Lucien Bonaparte</a>, younger brother of the French Emperor, and his family were imprisoned at Dinham House in 1811.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1832 Thomas Lloyd, the Ludlow doctor and amateur geologist, met <a href="/wiki/Roderick_Murchison" title="Roderick Murchison">Roderick Murchison</a> at <a href="/wiki/Ludford_Corner" class="mw-redirect" title="Ludford Corner">Ludford Corner</a> to study the rocks exposed along the <a href="/wiki/River_Teme" title="River Teme">River Teme</a> and on Whitcliffe, advancing Murchison's theory for a Silurian System that he was to publish in 1839.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Immediately above the topmost layer of the marine rock sequence forming Murchison's <a href="/wiki/Silurian" title="Silurian">Silurian</a> System was a thin layer of dark sand containing numerous remains of early fish, especially their scales, along with plant debris, <a href="/wiki/Spores" class="mw-redirect" title="Spores">spores</a> and <a href="/wiki/Microscopic" class="mw-redirect" title="Microscopic">microscopic</a> <a href="/wiki/Mites" class="mw-redirect" title="Mites">mites</a>. In contrast to the underlying sediments of the <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Series" class="mw-redirect" title="Ludlow Series">Ludlow Series</a> which were deposited in a shallow warm sea some 400 million years ago, the Ludlow <a href="/wiki/Bone_Bed" class="mw-redirect" title="Bone Bed">Bone Bed</a> represents terrestrial (land) conditions and thus a fundamental change in the landscape. At the time, this was believed to be the earliest occurrence of life on land. Murchison thus took the Ludlow Bone Bed as the base of his <a href="/wiki/Devonian" title="Devonian">Devonian</a> System, although over a century later this boundary was to be moved a little higher, the overlying rocks being ascribed to the <a href="/wiki/Pridoli_epoch" class="mw-redirect" title="Pridoli epoch">Pridoli</a>. The science of <a href="/wiki/Geology" title="Geology">geology</a> has taken a number of local names from these studies and now applies them worldwide, in recognition of the importance of this area to scientific understanding, for example, Ludlow Series. The site is now an <a href="/wiki/SSSI" class="mw-redirect" title="SSSI">SSSI</a> (Site of Special Scientific Interest) and still attracts international studies.<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Supereon_(geology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Supereon (geology)">geological interval of time</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_epoch" class="mw-redirect" title="Ludlow epoch">Ludlow Epoch</a>, is named after the town as part of the <a href="/wiki/Silurian" title="Silurian">Silurian</a> Period.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Recent_history">Recent history</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Recent history"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludlow_shopper.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/31/Ludlow_shopper.jpg/220px-Ludlow_shopper.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="157" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/31/Ludlow_shopper.jpg/330px-Ludlow_shopper.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/3/31/Ludlow_shopper.jpg/440px-Ludlow_shopper.jpg 2x" data-file-width="751" data-file-height="536" /></a><figcaption>A greengrocers' shop amidst Ludlow's narrow streets.</figcaption></figure> <p>By the late 20th century, the town had seen a growth in tourism, leading to the appearance of many <a href="/wiki/Antique_dealer" class="mw-redirect" title="Antique dealer">antique dealers</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Art_dealer" title="Art dealer">art dealers</a> and independent bookshops (the latter now mostly gone). Bodenhams, a clothing retailer, has been trading from a 600-year-old timbered building since 1860 and is one of the oldest stores in Britain.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ludlow was described by <i><a href="/wiki/Country_Life_(magazine)" title="Country Life (magazine)">Country Life</a></i> as "the most vibrant small town in England."<sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A long battle of words between local activists (including many of the town's independent businesses) and <a href="/wiki/Tesco" title="Tesco">Tesco</a> was eventually solved when the mega retailer obtained planning permission to build a supermarket on Corve Street, on the northern edge of the town centre, but only after agreeing to conform to the architectural demands of the local council. The building is designed to follow the outline of the hills in the background, with a curving roof. An <a href="/wiki/Aldi" title="Aldi">Aldi</a> supermarket was subsequently constructed on a site over the road from Tesco. </p><p>A development of 91 houses by South Shropshire Housing Association at Rocks Green won a Sustainable Housing award in 2009,<sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a <a href="/wiki/Sainsbury%27s" title="Sainsbury's">Sainsbury's</a> supermarket at Rocks Green was opened in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-Sainsburys_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sainsburys-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1983 a small computer magazine started publication in Ludlow by Roger Kean, <a href="/wiki/Oliver_Frey" title="Oliver Frey">Oliver Frey</a> and Franco Frey by <a href="/wiki/Newsfield_Publications_Ltd" class="mw-redirect" title="Newsfield Publications Ltd">Newsfield Publications Ltd</a> called <a href="/wiki/Crash_(magazine)" title="Crash (magazine)">Crash</a>. The magazine catered for the various owners of the <a href="/wiki/ZX_Spectrum" title="ZX Spectrum">ZX Spectrum</a>, and its sister magazine <i><a href="/wiki/Zzap!64" title="Zzap!64">Zzap!64</a></i> catered for <a href="/wiki/Commodore_International" title="Commodore International">Commodore's</a> rival machine <a href="/wiki/Commodore_64" title="Commodore 64">the C64</a>. The magazine was extremely popular and became Britain's biggest-selling computer magazine in 1986 selling over 100,000 copies monthly. In 1991 Newsfield suffered financial difficulty and the magazines were sold and relaunched by <a href="/wiki/Europress" title="Europress">Europress</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 2004 funding was granted by Advantage West Midlands to build a new 'Eco-Park' on the outskirts of the town on the east side of the <a href="/wiki/A49_road" title="A49 road">A49</a> bypass, at the <a href="/wiki/Sheet,_Shropshire" title="Sheet, Shropshire">Sheet Road</a> roundabout, with space for traditional handcraft businesses, new environmentally friendly office buildings and a <a href="/wiki/Park_%26_ride" class="mw-redirect" title="Park & ride">park & ride</a> facility. More construction work began in 2006 on the west side of the roundabout on a much-debated pasture land on the town's fringe known as the Foldgate. The land has now been turned over to commercial use with a <a href="/wiki/Filling_station" title="Filling station">filling station</a>, <a href="/wiki/Travelodge" title="Travelodge">Travelodge</a> hotel and <a href="/wiki/Pub_chain" title="Pub chain">chain</a> pub/restaurant, opened in late 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Geography">Geography</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Geography"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludlow_Castle_from_the_hills.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Ludlow_Castle_from_the_hills.JPG/220px-Ludlow_Castle_from_the_hills.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Ludlow_Castle_from_the_hills.JPG/330px-Ludlow_Castle_from_the_hills.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ad/Ludlow_Castle_from_the_hills.JPG/440px-Ludlow_Castle_from_the_hills.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4608" data-file-height="3072" /></a><figcaption>The town and castle viewed from the Whitcliffe, looking northeast; <a href="/wiki/Brown_Clee_Hill" title="Brown Clee Hill">Brown Clee Hill</a> looms in the distance.</figcaption></figure> <p>The medieval settlement is largely on the top of a hill, with the castle, market place and parish church (St Laurence's) situated along the flat land on this hilltop, which has a maximum elevation of 111 metres (364 ft) at the castle, falling only gradually towards the east, with an elevation of 107 metres (351 ft) at the Buttercross. </p><p>The streets then run down to the Rivers <a href="/wiki/River_Teme" title="River Teme">Teme</a> and <a href="/wiki/River_Corve" title="River Corve">Corve</a> (their confluence being to the northwest of the centre of Ludlow) to the north and south. The surface of the Teme has an approximate elevation of 76 metres (249 ft) as it passes Ludford Bridge. </p><p>In the western part of the historic core, Dinham retains the character of a village, though dominated by the castle, with a road leading steeply down from Castle Square to the Teme and then over Dinham Bridge (an early 19th century replacement of an older bridge very slightly downstream). The old chapel in Dinham, a Grade II* <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed building</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though no longer used for worship, features the oldest built structure in Ludlow outside the castle. To the east a rolling landscape exists, and it is in this direction that the town has steadily grown. <a href="/wiki/East_Hamlet" title="East Hamlet">East Hamlet</a> was the name of the settlement to the east of the town. </p><p>The growth of the town in this eastwards (and to the north-east) direction continues to the present day, with little or no development especially to the south or west, to an extent that the traditional town centre (the medieval town) is actually in the southwest corner of the entire settlement. It has also meant that the village of <a href="/wiki/Ludford,_Shropshire" title="Ludford, Shropshire">Ludford</a>, immediately on the other side of the Teme at Ludford Bridge (itself at the foot of Lower Broad Street), remains a distinct community. </p><p>Localities in the town's suburbs include Gallows Bank and Sandpits. Immediately beyond the A49 by-pass are Rocks Green and <a href="/wiki/Sheet,_Shropshire" title="Sheet, Shropshire">the Sheet</a>, and it is in these two places that much of the present development and growth of the town is taking place, including a Sainsbury's supermarket at Rocks Green.<sup id="cite_ref-Sainsburys_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Sainsburys-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They are both approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) from the town centre. </p> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236075235">.mw-parser-output .navbox{box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #a2a9b1;width:100%;clear:both;font-size:88%;text-align:center;padding:1px;margin:1em auto 0}.mw-parser-output .navbox .navbox{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .navbox+.navbox,.mw-parser-output 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conurbation">West Midlands conurbation</a></b></td> </tr><tr> <td></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="North"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/14px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/21px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/76/Pfeil_oben.svg/28px-Pfeil_oben.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td style="width:33%"><a href="/wiki/Leintwardine" title="Leintwardine">Leintwardine</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bucknell,_Shropshire" title="Bucknell, Shropshire">Bucknell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Knighton,_Powys" title="Knighton, Powys">Knighton</a></td> <td style="width:33%;"> <div style="white-space:nowrap;"><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span title="West"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/17px-Pfeil_links.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/25px-Pfeil_links.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Pfeil_links.svg/34px-Pfeil_links.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></span></span><b style="display:inline-block; vertical-align:middle; margin:0.75em 1em">Ludlow</b><span class="mw-valign-middle" typeof="mw:File"><span title="East"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/17px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png" decoding="async" width="17" height="14" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/25px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c5/Pfeil_rechts.svg/34px-Pfeil_rechts.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="500" /></span></span></div> </td> <td style="width:33%"><a href="/wiki/Cleehill" title="Cleehill">Cleehill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cleobury_Mortimer" title="Cleobury Mortimer">Cleobury Mortimer</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bewdley" title="Bewdley">Bewdley</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kidderminster" title="Kidderminster">Kidderminster</a></td> </tr><tr> <td></td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span title="South"><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/14px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png" decoding="async" width="14" height="17" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/21px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Pfeil_unten.svg/28px-Pfeil_unten.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="600" /></span></span></td> <td></td> </tr><tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Wigmore,_Herefordshire" title="Wigmore, Herefordshire">Wigmore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Presteigne" title="Presteigne">Presteigne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kington,_Herefordshire" title="Kington, Herefordshire">Kington</a></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Richard%27s_Castle" title="Richard's Castle">Richard's Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Leominster" title="Leominster">Leominster</a>, <b><a href="/wiki/Hereford" title="Hereford">Hereford</a></b></td> <td><a href="/wiki/Tenbury_Wells" title="Tenbury Wells">Tenbury Wells</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bromyard" title="Bromyard">Bromyard</a>, <b><a href="/wiki/Worcester,_England" title="Worcester, England">Worcester</a></b></td> </tr></tbody></table></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Accolades">Accolades</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Accolades"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludlow_Castle_as_seen_from_the_tower_of_St.Laurence%27s_Church.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Ludlow_Castle_as_seen_from_the_tower_of_St.Laurence%27s_Church.jpg/220px-Ludlow_Castle_as_seen_from_the_tower_of_St.Laurence%27s_Church.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="124" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Ludlow_Castle_as_seen_from_the_tower_of_St.Laurence%27s_Church.jpg/330px-Ludlow_Castle_as_seen_from_the_tower_of_St.Laurence%27s_Church.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/61/Ludlow_Castle_as_seen_from_the_tower_of_St.Laurence%27s_Church.jpg/440px-Ludlow_Castle_as_seen_from_the_tower_of_St.Laurence%27s_Church.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="2248" /></a><figcaption>View from St Laurence's to the castle, looking west across the highest part of the medieval town.</figcaption></figure> <p>The town has regularly been held in high esteem by academics and commentators in the areas of <a href="/wiki/Urbanism" title="Urbanism">urbanism</a> and architecture. Ludlow was winner of <i>The Great Town Award</i> (UK & Ireland) from The Academy of Urbanism in 2007.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The first episode of the BBC television series <i><a href="/wiki/TOWN_with_Nicholas_Crane" class="mw-redirect" title="TOWN with Nicholas Crane">Town</a></i>, in which geographer <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Crane" title="Nicholas Crane">Nicholas Crane</a> examines the great towns of the United Kingdom, focused solely on Ludlow for the hour-long documentary.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ludlow also was one of the <i>Six English Towns</i>, a 1977 television programme by architectural historian <a href="/wiki/Alec_Clifton-Taylor" title="Alec Clifton-Taylor">Alec Clifton-Taylor</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The historic centre of Ludlow has largely escaped development that would otherwise alter its medieval, Tudor and Georgian character. Furthermore, the lack of development to the south and west allows for the town's historic setting (and particularly that of the castle) by the Teme and the neighbouring countryside to be readily appreciated in the modern day. <a href="/wiki/M.R.G._Conzen" class="mw-redirect" title="M.R.G. Conzen">M.R.G. Conzen</a> remarked of Ludlow "Its composite medieval town plan and a history of eight and a half centuries with several periods of considerable importance have endowed its Old Town with an historically well-stratified and richly textured landscape."<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Michael Raven, who created a detailed gazetteer of all the settlements of Herefordshire and Shropshire in the late 20th century, stated that "There can be little doubt that Ludlow is the finest town in Shropshire."<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The medieval street plan remains, though the town walls and gates have disappeared in many places. Mill Street and Broad Street, leading down from the very centre to the Teme in the south, are particularly famous for their rich architectural heritage and vistas, with many fine Georgian buildings. Sir <a href="/wiki/Nikolaus_Pevsner" title="Nikolaus Pevsner">Nikolaus Pevsner</a> described Broad Street as "one of the most memorable streets in England".<sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Population">Population</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Population"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Census_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Census in the United Kingdom">2011 UK census</a> recorded 10,266 people living in Ludlow's <a href="/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil parishes in England">civil parish</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A further 673 live in the neighbouring <a href="/wiki/Ludford,_Shropshire" title="Ludford, Shropshire">Ludford</a> parish,<sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> meaning the population for the town and adjoining settlements is approximately 11,000. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Historical">Historical</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Historical"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1377, <a href="/wiki/Tax_per_head" class="mw-redirect" title="Tax per head">poll tax</a> was levied against 1,172 of the parish's residents.<sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By this measure, Ludlow was the 35th most populous town in England.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable" style="font-size:80%; width:70%; border:0; text-align:center; line-height:120%;"> <tbody><tr> <th colspan="19" style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;"><a href="/wiki/Population_growth" title="Population growth">Population growth</a> in Ludlow since 1801 </th></tr> <tr> <th style="background:#9cc; color:navy; height:17px;">Year </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1801 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1811 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1821 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1831 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1841 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1851 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1881 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1891 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1901 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1911 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1921 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1931 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1951 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1961 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1971 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">1987 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">2001 </th> <th style="background:#fff; color:navy;">2011 </th></tr> <tr style="text-align:center;"> <th style="background:#9cc; color:navy; height:17px;">Population </th> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">3,897 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">4,150 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">4,820 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">5,253 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">5,064 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">4,691 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">5,035 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">4,460 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">4,552 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">5,926 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">5,674 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">5,642 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">6,456 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">6,796 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">7,470 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">7,450 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">9,548 </td> <td style="background:#fff; color:black;">10,266 </td></tr> <tr> <td colspan="19" style="text-align:center;font-size:90%;"><small><b>Source: A Vision of Britain through Time and the Office for National Statistics<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></b></small> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Transport">Transport</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: Transport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Railways">Railways</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: Railways"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludlow_railway_station_-_DSCF2178.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Ludlow_railway_station_-_DSCF2178.JPG/220px-Ludlow_railway_station_-_DSCF2178.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Ludlow_railway_station_-_DSCF2178.JPG/330px-Ludlow_railway_station_-_DSCF2178.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5a/Ludlow_railway_station_-_DSCF2178.JPG/440px-Ludlow_railway_station_-_DSCF2178.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4000" data-file-height="3000" /></a><figcaption>The southbound platform at Ludlow station</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Ludlow_railway_station" title="Ludlow railway station">Ludlow railway station</a> began serving the town in 1852 and is about five minutes' walk from the town centre. It is on the <a href="/wiki/Welsh_Marches_Line" class="mw-redirect" title="Welsh Marches Line">Welsh Marches Line</a> and is served by trains between <a href="/wiki/Manchester_Piccadilly_railway_station" class="mw-redirect" title="Manchester Piccadilly railway station">Manchester Piccadilly</a>, <a href="/wiki/Crewe_railway_station" title="Crewe railway station">Crewe</a>, <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_railway_station" title="Shrewsbury railway station">Shrewsbury</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hereford_railway_station" title="Hereford railway station">Hereford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abergavenny_railway_station" title="Abergavenny railway station">Abergavenny</a>, <a href="/wiki/Cardiff_Central_railway_station" title="Cardiff Central railway station">Cardiff Central</a> and <a href="/wiki/Swansea_railway_station" title="Swansea railway station">Swansea</a>; these are operated by <a href="/wiki/Transport_for_Wales_Rail" title="Transport for Wales Rail">Transport for Wales</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>There is a short tunnel to the south of the station, which runs under Gravel Hill. <a href="/wiki/Clee_Hill_Junction" title="Clee Hill Junction">Clee Hill Junction</a> existed just to the north of the station, with a goods line leading off the main line up to the quarries on <a href="/wiki/Titterstone_Clee_Hill" title="Titterstone Clee Hill">Titterstone Clee Hill</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Buses">Buses</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: Buses"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coach,_Mill_Street,_Ludlow_-_IMG_0226.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Coach%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow_-_IMG_0226.JPG/220px-Coach%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow_-_IMG_0226.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Coach%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow_-_IMG_0226.JPG/330px-Coach%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow_-_IMG_0226.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f3/Coach%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow_-_IMG_0226.JPG/440px-Coach%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow_-_IMG_0226.JPG 2x" data-file-width="4320" data-file-height="3240" /></a><figcaption>A Minsterley Motors <a href="/wiki/Optare_Tempo" title="Optare Tempo">Optare Tempo</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Bus services in the area are operated by <a href="/wiki/Diamond_West_Midlands" title="Diamond West Midlands">Diamond Bus</a>, Lugg Valley Travel and <a href="/wiki/Minsterley_Motors" title="Minsterley Motors">Minsterley Motors</a>. Routes link the town with Church Stretton, <a href="/wiki/Kidderminster" title="Kidderminster">Kidderminster</a> and Shrewsbury; there is also a <a href="/wiki/Park_and_ride_bus_services_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Park and ride bus services in the United Kingdom">park and ride</a> service, on a circular route.<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roads">Roads</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Roads"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 4 February 1980, the £4.7 million single-carriageway <a href="/wiki/Bypass_(road)" title="Bypass (road)">by-pass</a> road was officially opened by <a href="/wiki/Kenneth_Clarke" title="Kenneth Clarke">Kenneth Clarke</a>. The by-pass had been built to the east of Ludlow in the late 1970s, opening to traffic in the summer of 1979, and diverts the <a href="/wiki/A49_road" title="A49 road">A49</a> <a href="/wiki/Trunk_road" title="Trunk road">trunk road</a> around the town. The former route of the A49 through the town was reclassified as the B4361. </p><p>The town centre retains its medieval streets and has had long-running problems with motor traffic and car parking, which is now restricted seven days a week. There is a town centre residents' parking permit scheme in operation. Council-owned car parks exist in a number of locations in Ludlow to cater for much of the long-stay car parking. The Eco-Park situated on the eastern outskirts of the town, at <a href="/wiki/Sheet,_Shropshire" title="Sheet, Shropshire">the Sheet</a> and adjacent to the A49. </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/A4117_road" title="A4117 road">A4117</a> begins at the Rocks Green roundabout on the Ludlow by-pass and runs across the <a href="/wiki/Clee_Hills" title="Clee Hills">Clee Hills</a> to <a href="/wiki/Cleobury_Mortimer" title="Cleobury Mortimer">Cleobury Mortimer</a>; it then continues via the <a href="/wiki/A456_road" title="A456 road">A456</a> onwards to <a href="/wiki/Bewdley" title="Bewdley">Bewdley</a> and Kidderminster. </p><p>Two historic bridges cross the <a href="/wiki/River_Teme" title="River Teme">River Teme</a> at Ludlow: <a href="/wiki/Ludford_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Ludford Bridge">Ludford Bridge</a> (a Scheduled Ancient Monument) and Dinham Bridge (early 19th century, Grade II listed);<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> both of which still take vehicular traffic as no modern bridges have been built over the Teme in the area. To the north of the town centre, the historic Corve Bridge crosses the River Corve and this bridge was relieved by <a href="/wiki/Burway_Bridge" title="Burway Bridge">Burway Bridge</a> in the mid-20th century. However, on 26 June 2007, <a href="/wiki/2007_United_Kingdom_floods" title="2007 United Kingdom floods">dramatic flooding</a> on the Corve caused the Burway Bridge to collapse, severing a gas main and causing 20 homes in nearby Corve Street to be evacuated.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The old stone bridge has now been replaced with a modern steel and pre-fabricated concrete construction. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Cycling">Cycling</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Cycling"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/National_Cycle_Network" title="National Cycle Network">National Cycle Network</a> <a href="/wiki/National_Cycle_Route_44" title="National Cycle Route 44">route 44</a> runs over Dinham and Ludford Bridges (via Camp and Silkmill Lanes in-between) en route from Bromfield to <a href="/wiki/Pipe_Aston" title="Pipe Aston">Pipe Aston</a>. It is known as the <i>Six Castles Cycleway</i>, with Ludlow Castle as one of the six. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Walking">Walking</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Walking"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Mortimer_Trail" title="Mortimer Trail">Mortimer Trail</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Long-distance_trail" title="Long-distance trail">long-distance footpath</a>, runs from Ludlow to <a href="/wiki/Kington,_Herefordshire" title="Kington, Herefordshire">Kington, Herefordshire</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Culture">Culture</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Culture"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Festivals_and_fairs">Festivals and fairs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Festivals and fairs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The now-defunct Ludlow Festival was held annually from 1960, during June and July each year.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An open area within the castle served as the stage and backdrop for various <a href="/wiki/Shakespeare" class="mw-redirect" title="Shakespeare">Shakespearean</a> plays, while a number of supporting events at various venues included classical and pop/rock concerts, varied musicians, lecture talks from public figures, and entertainers. The 54-year-old Festival which had been "loss-making" collapsed in 2014 due to "financial troubles". Organisers said it was "simply not commercially viable". </p><p>The Medieval Christmas Fayre continued to take place until 2019, the Covid 19 pandemic meant that the 2020 and 2021 Fayres couldn’t go ahead. It was set up for 2022 but a storm caused damage the night before and meant it was cancelled at last minute. The financial impact meant that the festival organisers folded. </p><p>The Medieval Christmas Fayre was replaced by the Ludlow Winter festival in 2023 and is due to take place again in November 2024 <sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Gastronomy">Gastronomy</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Gastronomy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:DW_Wall_-_traditional_butcher%27s_shop,_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1601159.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/DW_Wall_-_traditional_butcher%27s_shop%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1601159.jpg/220px-DW_Wall_-_traditional_butcher%27s_shop%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1601159.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="166" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/DW_Wall_-_traditional_butcher%27s_shop%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1601159.jpg/330px-DW_Wall_-_traditional_butcher%27s_shop%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1601159.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5d/DW_Wall_-_traditional_butcher%27s_shop%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1601159.jpg/440px-DW_Wall_-_traditional_butcher%27s_shop%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1601159.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="482" /></a><figcaption>One of the two remaining traditional <a href="/wiki/Butcher#Butcher_shop" title="Butcher">butcher shops</a> in the centre of the town</figcaption></figure> <p>Ludlow was for a time a <a href="/wiki/Gastronomic" class="mw-redirect" title="Gastronomic">gastronomic</a> centre, at one point the only town in England with three <a href="/wiki/Michelin_Guide" title="Michelin Guide">Michelin-starred</a> restaurants.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The town had boasted eight <a href="/wiki/AA_Rosette" title="AA Rosette">AA Rosette</a> starred restaurants, and three Michelin-starred establishments. In 2016, Ludlow lost its last Michelin-starred establishment — <i>Mr Underhills</i><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> — which had featured in the <i><a href="/wiki/Sunday_Times" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunday Times">Sunday Times</a></i> <i>Top 100 Restaurants</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another previously starred establishment in Ludlow was <i><a href="/wiki/La_B%C3%A9casse" title="La Bécasse">La Bécasse</a></i> which went into liquidation for the second time in 2014. </p><p>The town hosts the annual Ludlow <a href="/wiki/Food_festival" title="Food festival">food festival</a>. Ludlow was the first UK member of <a href="/wiki/Cittaslow" title="Cittaslow">Cittaslow</a> or "<a href="/wiki/Slow_food" class="mw-redirect" title="Slow food">slow food</a>" movement,<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but after ongoing controversy over public funding, the town is no longer a member. As of 2021, the town has three butchers (one located in the suburbs), four bakers, a regular <a href="/wiki/Farmers_market" class="mw-redirect" title="Farmers market">farmers market</a> and a range of specialist food shops. The town has a brewery which has been producing <a href="/wiki/Real_ale" title="Real ale">real ale</a> (using local <a href="/wiki/Hops" title="Hops">hops</a>) since 2006; it is in a renovated goods shed near the <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_railway_station" title="Ludlow railway station">railway station</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The annual Ludlow Marches Festival of Food & Drink is a <a href="/wiki/Trade_fair" class="mw-redirect" title="Trade fair">trade fair</a> that takes place in and around Ludlow in September. Centred on Ludlow Castle, where over 150 local, small food producers showcase and sell their wares, the three-day event involves the town centre in food and drink trails including a "Sausage Trail".<sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Arts">Arts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Arts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town is home to an arts and cinema centre, The Ludlow Assembly Rooms, that hosts live and streamed music, theatre, stand-up comedy and talks. It acts as an arts community centre, has a <a href="/wiki/Visual_arts" title="Visual arts">visual arts</a> gallery, and on most evenings, shows a film, from a wide variety of genres (including classic, <a href="/wiki/Arthouse" class="mw-redirect" title="Arthouse">arthouse</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Blockbuster_(entertainment)" title="Blockbuster (entertainment)">blockbuster</a>).<sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ludlow is now also home to the Rooftop Theatre Company. Originally from the South East, they have been delivering contemporary-styled Shakespeare since 2003. Their first Ludlow production was The Comedy of Errors in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ludlow has featured in movies and TV programmes including <a href="/wiki/Tom_Sharpe" title="Tom Sharpe">Tom Sharpe</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Blott_on_the_Landscape" title="Blott on the Landscape">Blott on the Landscape</a></i> and 90s TV adaptations of <i><a href="/wiki/The_History_of_Tom_Jones,_a_Foundling" title="The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling">The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/Moll_Flanders" title="Moll Flanders">Moll Flanders</a></i>. In Shakespeare's <a href="/wiki/Richard_III_(play)" title="Richard III (play)"><i>Richard III</i></a>, Ludlow is mentioned,<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as the place where the young <a href="/wiki/Edward_V_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward V of England">Edward V</a> is to be fetched as Richard III plots to seize the crown. The town is described as the capital of <a href="/wiki/Wales" title="Wales">Wales</a> following a <a href="/wiki/Zombie_apocalypse" title="Zombie apocalypse">zombie apocalypse</a> in the novel <a href="/wiki/World_War_Z" title="World War Z">World War Z</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ludlow has connections with a number of figures in the arts – including <a href="/wiki/Alfred_Edward_Housman" class="mw-redirect" title="Alfred Edward Housman">Alfred Edward Housman</a>, poet and author of "<a href="/wiki/A_Shropshire_Lad" title="A Shropshire Lad">A Shropshire Lad</a>" (his ashes were buried in the graveyard of St Laurence's Church and were marked by a cherry tree). <a href="/wiki/Stanley_J._Weyman" title="Stanley J. Weyman">Stanley J. Weyman</a>, the novelist known as the "Prince of Romance", was born in Ludlow, as was sculptor <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Jones_(sculptor)" title="Adrian Jones (sculptor)">Adrian Jones</a>, whose ashes are buried in the same churchyard. The naval historian and novelist Captain <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Bennett_(historian)" title="Geoffrey Bennett (historian)">Geoffrey Bennett</a> (Sea Lion) lived in Ludlow after his retirement in 1974 up to his death in 1983 and his ashes, too, were interred in the parish churchyard. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Sport">Sport</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: Sport"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludlow_Town_FC_-_geograph.org.uk_-_148132.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ludlow_Town_FC_-_geograph.org.uk_-_148132.jpg/220px-Ludlow_Town_FC_-_geograph.org.uk_-_148132.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="158" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ludlow_Town_FC_-_geograph.org.uk_-_148132.jpg/330px-Ludlow_Town_FC_-_geograph.org.uk_-_148132.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Ludlow_Town_FC_-_geograph.org.uk_-_148132.jpg/440px-Ludlow_Town_FC_-_geograph.org.uk_-_148132.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="460" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Town_F.C.#Stadium" title="Ludlow Town F.C.">Ludlow's football stadium</a>, located at Burway on the northern edge of the town (actually in Bromfield civil parish), was home to AFC Ludlow and several other sports teams.</figcaption></figure> <p>The town had a <a href="/wiki/Association_football" title="Association football">football</a> team (AFC Ludlow), which competed in the <a href="/wiki/West_Midlands_(Regional)_League" title="West Midlands (Regional) League">West Midlands (Regional) League</a> Division One.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The club could no longer field a full team, and folded in June 2016. Ludlow's <a href="/wiki/Rugby_union" title="Rugby union">rugby union</a> club have their ground situated just off Linney near the castle, competing in the Midland league. There is a <a href="/wiki/Cricket" title="Cricket">cricket</a> club sporting its 1st and 2nd XI teams in the Shropshire Premier Cricket League and its 3rd and 4th XI in the Shropshire Cricket League Division 5 and Division 6 respectively. The cricket ground is near the junction of Burway Lane and Bromfield Road in the north of the town and has a picturesque setting with the castle, St Laurence's church and surrounding hills and countryside clearly visible. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Racecourse" title="Ludlow Racecourse">Ludlow Racecourse</a> and Ludlow Golf Club are situated together just off the <a href="/wiki/A49_road" title="A49 road">A49 road</a> 2 miles (3.2 km) northwest of the town centre, at a place called Old Field near <a href="/wiki/Bromfield,_Shropshire" title="Bromfield, Shropshire">Bromfield</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A smaller (9-hole) golf course exists at Elm Lodge, just off Fishmore Road on the northern edge of the town. </p><p>A privately run leisure and fitness centre, which includes a swimming pool, is on Bromfield Road on the northern edge of the town (near the secondary school).<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Lawn_bowls" class="mw-redirect" title="Lawn bowls">Lawn bowls</a> is played in the area, with several teams from Ludlow's two bowling clubs (Burway and Ludlow Castle) playing against each other and teams from further afield, in the Ludlow & District Bowls League,<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> as well as in the higher Shropshire leagues. There is an amateur <a href="/wiki/Boxing" title="Boxing">boxing</a> club, situated on Wheeler Road, with its new clubhouse opening in 2014. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Media">Media</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Media"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Castle_Square,_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337418.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Castle_Square%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337418.jpg/220px-Castle_Square%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337418.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Castle_Square%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337418.jpg/330px-Castle_Square%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337418.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/95/Castle_Square%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337418.jpg/440px-Castle_Square%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337418.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>Castle Square looking east towards St Laurence's Church. <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_College" title="Ludlow College">Ludlow College</a> is to the left; <a href="/wiki/Castle_Lodge,_Ludlow" title="Castle Lodge, Ludlow">Castle Lodge</a> to the right.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Newspapers">Newspapers</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Newspapers"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <i>Ludlow Advertiser</i> was founded in 1855 by John Crosse, with its original offices at 18 King Street. New premises for the Advertiser were constructed in 1914 on Upper Galdeford, still called the Advertiser Buildings, but now a fast-food outlet. It has published an edition weekly ever since,<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> though is now the <i>Ludlow and Tenbury Wells Advertiser</i> and published from the <i>Hereford Times</i> offices in Hereford. The current free paper is the <i>Teme Valley Times</i>, founded in 2006. In 2010 the <i>Ludlow Journal</i>, a free weekly newspaper, ceased publication and was absorbed into its paid-for sister, the <i>South Shropshire Journal</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <i><a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Star" title="Shropshire Star">Shropshire Star</a></i> – with its related publication the <i>South Shropshire Journal</i> – is published in <a href="/wiki/Ketley" title="Ketley">Ketley</a> and had an office in Ludlow, at The Angel on Broad Street, but this closed in 2017. The magazine publisher <a href="/wiki/Newsfield" title="Newsfield">Newsfield</a> was based in Ludlow. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Television">Television</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Television"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Regional TV news is provided by <a href="/wiki/BBC_West_Midlands" title="BBC West Midlands">BBC West Midlands</a> and <a href="/wiki/ITV_Central" title="ITV Central">ITV Central</a>. Television signals are received from the <a href="/wiki/Ridge_Hill_transmitting_station" title="Ridge Hill transmitting station">Ridge Hill</a> and the local relay transmitters.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Radio_stations">Radio stations</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Radio stations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Sunshine_855" class="mw-redirect" title="Sunshine 855">Sunshine Radio</a>, once a <a href="/wiki/Pirate_radio" title="Pirate radio">pirate radio</a> station, is now a legitimate commercial broadcaster in the south Shropshire and north Herefordshire/Worcestershire area on 105.9 FM, and more widely on 855 kHz AM<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which is broadcast from a transmitting station situated between Ludlow and Tenbury Wells.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Its <a href="/wiki/Sunshine_Radio_(Herefordshire_and_Monmouthshire)" title="Sunshine Radio (Herefordshire and Monmouthshire)">sister station in Hereford</a> can also be received in Ludlow on 106.2 FM. <a href="/wiki/BBC_Radio_Shropshire" title="BBC Radio Shropshire">BBC Radio Shropshire</a>, broadcast largely from Shrewsbury, has a number of frequencies in order to cover the county's hilly terrain, and broadcasts in this part of south Shropshire on 95 FM, referred to as its Ludlow frequency. There is a transmitting station above the town in <a href="/wiki/Mortimer_Forest" title="Mortimer Forest">Mortimer Forest</a>, which transmits Radio Shropshire and other television and radio frequencies.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/BBC_Hereford_and_Worcester" class="mw-redirect" title="BBC Hereford and Worcester">BBC Hereford and Worcester</a>'s 94.7 FM and 1584 kHz AM broadcasts can be picked up in Ludlow. </p><p>BBC Hereford and Worcester's 1584 AM and Sunshine Radio's 105.9 FM broadcasts are made from the <a href="/wiki/Woofferton_transmitting_station" title="Woofferton transmitting station">Woofferton transmitting station</a>, just south of Ludlow, which is notable for its <a href="/wiki/Cold_War" title="Cold War">Cold War</a> history and now being the UK's only remaining <a href="/wiki/Shortwave" class="mw-redirect" title="Shortwave">shortwave</a> broadcasting site. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Governance">Governance</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Governance"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civic">Civic</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Civic"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Buttercross,_Ludlow.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/The_Buttercross%2C_Ludlow.jpg/220px-The_Buttercross%2C_Ludlow.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/The_Buttercross%2C_Ludlow.jpg/330px-The_Buttercross%2C_Ludlow.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/64/The_Buttercross%2C_Ludlow.jpg/440px-The_Buttercross%2C_Ludlow.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The Buttercross, built in 1743–1746, at the top of Broad Street and the highest point of the medieval town (the site of the High Cross); historically this spot was used as a benchmark for road distances to Ludlow.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:The_Guildhall_building,_Mill_Street,_Ludlow._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337410.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/The_Guildhall_building%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337410.jpg/220px-The_Guildhall_building%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337410.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/The_Guildhall_building%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337410.jpg/330px-The_Guildhall_building%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337410.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0a/The_Guildhall_building%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337410.jpg/440px-The_Guildhall_building%2C_Mill_Street%2C_Ludlow._-_geograph.org.uk_-_1337410.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Guildhall" title="Ludlow Guildhall">Ludlow Guildhall</a></figcaption></figure> <p>Ludlow is a <a href="/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil parishes in England">civil parish</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Parish_councils_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Parish councils in England">town council</a> and a mayor. Ludlow was a <a href="/wiki/Ancient_borough" title="Ancient borough">borough</a> from 1461 to 1974 (becoming a <a href="/wiki/Municipal_borough" title="Municipal borough">municipal borough</a> in 1835 and a <a href="/wiki/Rural_borough" class="mw-redirect" title="Rural borough">rural borough</a> in 1967); the borough encompassed the same area as Ludlow's <a href="/wiki/Parish" title="Parish">parish</a> until the mid-late 19th century. Its borough status meant Ludlow was largely autonomous from the hundred of <a href="/wiki/Munslow_(hundred)" title="Munslow (hundred)">Munslow</a> which it lay in. </p><p>Wider local government was provided by <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Rural_District" title="Ludlow Rural District">Ludlow Rural District</a> from 1894 (this rural district absorbed the borough of Ludlow in 1967, causing the change in status to a rural borough) until 1974 when <a href="/wiki/South_Shropshire" title="South Shropshire">South Shropshire</a> District Council (with Ludlow as its seat) took over along with <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_County_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Shropshire County Council">Shropshire County Council</a> in a two-tier arrangement. Rural boroughs were abolished in 1974 and Ludlow's <a href="/wiki/Borough_status_in_the_United_Kingdom" title="Borough status in the United Kingdom">borough status</a> at that point ended. The district councils of Shropshire were abolished in 2009 and the county now has a <a href="/wiki/Unitary_authority" title="Unitary authority">unitary authority</a> called <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Council" title="Shropshire Council">Shropshire Council</a>, based in Shrewsbury. The South Shropshire District Council's offices at Stone House on Corve Street were gradually emptied of local government staff until their sale in 2014.<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The town council is based at <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Guildhall" title="Ludlow Guildhall">Ludlow Guildhall</a> on Mill Street, a grade I listed building,<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was the home of the town's <a href="/wiki/County_court" title="County court">county</a> and magistrates' courts until their closure in 2011.<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There was a Town Hall, situated in the Square, which was built in 1887–1888 and demolished in March 1986;<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> it featured prominently just prior to its demolition in the 1985 television drama <i><a href="/wiki/Blott_on_the_Landscape" title="Blott on the Landscape">Blott on the Landscape</a></i>. The other notable civic building in the centre of town is the <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Buttercross" title="Ludlow Buttercross">Buttercross</a> (named as it was the butter market at the site of the medieval High Cross); it was the home of the town council after the demolition of the Town Hall and prior to the closure of the courts. It is now an 'interpretation centre' for the town's architectural heritage.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Electoral_arrangements">Electoral arrangements</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Electoral arrangements"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The boundaries of Ludlow's wards and electoral divisions were most recently reviewed in 2008.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Fifteen councillors sit on the town council, representing seven <a href="/wiki/Wards_in_the_United_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Wards in the United Kingdom">wards</a>, and elections (when contested) are held every four years (at the same time as elections to Shropshire Council). The seven wards changed slightly in 2008, retaining their previous names and number of councillors they each return – they are (with the number of town councillors returned given): Rockspring (2), Hayton (2), Bringewood (2), Corve (2), Whitcliffe (2), Gallows Bank (3), and Clee View (2). </p><p>Ludlow together with nearby parishes comprise three electoral divisions, each returning one councillor to Shropshire Council in elections held every four years, the <a href="/wiki/2021_Shropshire_Council_election#Ludlow_East" title="2021 Shropshire Council election">most recent being in 2021</a>. The electoral divisions comprise: </p> <ul><li>Ludlow North (the wards of Corve, Whitcliffe and Bringewood together with the parish of <a href="/wiki/Bromfield,_Shropshire" title="Bromfield, Shropshire">Bromfield</a>)</li> <li>Ludlow East (the wards of Hayton, Clee View and Rockspring)</li> <li>Ludlow South (Gallows Bank and the parishes of <a href="/wiki/Ludford,_Shropshire" title="Ludford, Shropshire">Ludford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Richard%27s_Castle" title="Richard's Castle">Richard's Castle</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ashford_Bowdler" title="Ashford Bowdler">Ashford Bowdler</a> and <a href="/wiki/Ashford_Carbonell" title="Ashford Carbonell">Ashford Carbonel</a>).</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Civil_parishes">Civil parishes</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Civil parishes"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ludford is a separate <a href="/wiki/Civil_parishes_in_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Civil parishes in England">civil parish</a>, with its own parish council, and covers the adjoining places of <a href="/wiki/Ludford,_Shropshire" title="Ludford, Shropshire">Ludford</a>, Foldgate, Steventon, <a href="/wiki/The_Sheet" class="mw-redirect" title="The Sheet">the Sheet</a> and Rocks Green. Until 1901 an area of land at the foot of Old Street, called <a href="/wiki/Holdgate_Fee" class="mw-redirect" title="Holdgate Fee">Holdgate Fee</a>, was a detached part of Ludford parish in the town itself. Ludlow Castle was a parish of its own, contained within the castle's walls and the immediate hillside; it was abolished in 1901 and ceded to Ludlow's civil parish.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other than Ludford, the only other civil parish in the present-day that neighbours Ludlow is <a href="/wiki/Bromfield,_Shropshire" title="Bromfield, Shropshire">Bromfield</a>. </p><p>The civil parish of <a href="/wiki/East_Hamlet" title="East Hamlet">East Hamlet</a>, created in 1884 covered a limited area to the east of the town; this parish was largely absorbed by Ludlow's parish as the town expanded into it (in 1901, 1934 and finally in 1987 when it was abolished). Ludlow's parish in 1901 expanded into Ludford to the east (taking in Holdgate Fee and the Steventon New Road area); another two expansions into Ludford in 1934 involved taking in the Whitcliffe (which had been acquired by the burgesses of Ludlow already in the 13th century)<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a further part to the east (the Gallows Bank area). 1934 also saw a significant expansion of the Ludlow parish west into Bromfield's parish, on both sides of the Teme; this coupled with the inclusion of Whitcliffe constitutes the western, essentially rural part to Ludlow's civil parish in the present day. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Parliament">Parliament</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Parliament"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png/170px-Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png" decoding="async" width="170" height="198" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png/255px-Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f8/Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png/340px-Coat_of_arms_of_Ludlow.png 2x" data-file-width="877" data-file-height="1023" /></a><figcaption>The coat of arms of Ludlow date to the creation of the parliamentary borough and pay homage to <a href="/wiki/Richard_of_York,_3rd_Duke_of_York" title="Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York">Richard, Duke of York</a>. It displays the white lion of the <a href="/wiki/Earl_of_March" title="Earl of March">Earl of March</a> surrounded by three <a href="/wiki/White_Rose_of_York" title="White Rose of York">white roses</a> of the <a href="/wiki/House_of_York" title="House of York">House of York</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>For representation to the <a href="/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a>, Ludlow falls within the <a href="/wiki/South_Shropshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)">South Shropshire constituency</a>, which has its origins in the <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ludlow (UK Parliament constituency)">Ludlow</a> <a href="/wiki/Parliamentary_borough" class="mw-redirect" title="Parliamentary borough">parliamentary borough</a> constituency created in 1473, and which until 1868 returned two <a href="/wiki/Burgess_(title)" title="Burgess (title)">burgesses</a> to Parliament. </p><p>In modern times the Ludlow constituency came to cover a large area of southern Shropshire including <a href="/wiki/Bridgnorth" title="Bridgnorth">Bridgnorth</a> and after constituency boundary changes was redesignated <a href="/wiki/South_Shropshire_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="South Shropshire (UK Parliament constituency)">South Shropshire</a> ahead of the <a href="/wiki/2024_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2024 United Kingdom general election">2024 general election</a> when the current member, <a href="/wiki/Stuart_Anderson_(politician)" title="Stuart Anderson (politician)">Stuart Anderson</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Conservative_Party_(United_Kingdom)" class="mw-redirect" title="Conservative Party (United Kingdom)">Conservative Party</a>, was elected.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Economy">Economy</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: Economy"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>McConnel Limited, a manufacturer of hedge cutting and verge mowing machinery, is based in Ludlow, occupying a seven-acre industrial site in the Temeside/Weeping Cross area of the town known as the Temeside Works.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The company claims to be the innovator of the first tractor-mounted hedge cutting machine (produced in 1945) and a leading producer of reach flail mower hedge and verge mowing power-arm technology. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Market">Market</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Market"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The town has regular outdoor markets held on Castle Square, an area that was enlarged in 1986 with the demolition of the Town Hall (which was also known as Market Hall). General markets are held on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays and Saturdays. Specialist markets (examples being crafts, antiques, local produce) are held on occasional Thursdays and Sundays. They are run by the town council.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Education">Education</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: Education"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ludlow has two primary schools for children aged 5–11, and a secondary school – the <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Church_of_England_School" title="Ludlow Church of England School">Ludlow Church of England School</a> — for pupils aged 11–16. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Ludlow_College" title="Ludlow College">Ludlow College</a> is a sixth form college in the town centre, formed by the merger of the town's boys grammar school and girls high school. Prior to its merger with <a href="/wiki/Herefordshire_and_Ludlow_College" title="Herefordshire and Ludlow College">Herefordshire College</a> in 2012 it was one of the oldest educational institutions in the country, dating back some 800 years.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Health">Health</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Health"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Hospital" title="Ludlow Hospital">Ludlow Hospital</a> is an NHS community hospital at the junction of Gravel Hill and New Road. It had until recently several inpatient and outpatient departments and wards, as well as a minor injuries unit. </p><p>There are two doctors' surgeries in the town, both just off Upper Galdeford. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Emergency_services">Emergency services</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: Emergency services"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Shropshire_Fire_and_Rescue_Service" title="Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service">Shropshire Fire and Rescue Service</a> have a fire station on Weeping Cross Lane, staffed by <a href="/wiki/Retained_firefighter" title="Retained firefighter">retained firefighters</a>. </p><p><a href="/wiki/West_Mercia_Police" title="West Mercia Police">West Mercia Police</a> have a police station on Lower Galdeford. Its front counter closed in 2015. </p><p>Voluntary aid society, the <a href="/wiki/British_Red_Cross" title="British Red Cross">British Red Cross</a>, has a hall in the Smithfield car park, just off Lower Galdeford, and adjacent to the fire station. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Religion">Religion</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=36" title="Edit section: Religion"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:St._Peter%27s_Catholic_Church,_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_628950.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/St._Peter%27s_Catholic_Church%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_628950.jpg/220px-St._Peter%27s_Catholic_Church%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_628950.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/St._Peter%27s_Catholic_Church%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_628950.jpg/330px-St._Peter%27s_Catholic_Church%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_628950.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/28/St._Peter%27s_Catholic_Church%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_628950.jpg/440px-St._Peter%27s_Catholic_Church%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_628950.jpg 2x" data-file-width="640" data-file-height="480" /></a><figcaption>St Peter's church, built in the late 1930s in the neo-Byzantine and plain Romanesque styles, is the town's Roman Catholic church.</figcaption></figure> <p>There are two <a href="/wiki/Parish_(Church_of_England)" title="Parish (Church of England)">Church of England parishes</a> in Ludlow and two Church of England churches – the large and historic <a href="/wiki/St_Laurence%27s_Church,_Ludlow" title="St Laurence's Church, Ludlow">St Laurence's Church</a> in the centre of the town – and the 19th century St John's Church on Gravel Hill. Within St Laurence's Church are the St John's, Lady and St Catherine's chapels.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ludford has its own Church of England <a href="/wiki/Ecclesiastical_parish" class="mw-redirect" title="Ecclesiastical parish">parish</a> and church, dedicated to St Giles. </p><p>Ludlow falls within the Church of England's <a href="/wiki/Diocese_of_Hereford" title="Diocese of Hereford">Diocese of Hereford</a> and between 1981 and 2020 was a suffragan <a href="/wiki/Episcopal_see" title="Episcopal see">see</a> with its own <a href="/wiki/Suffragan_bishop" title="Suffragan bishop">suffragan bishop</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Ludlow" title="Bishop of Ludlow">Bishop of Ludlow</a>, the only such bishop in the diocese. There has long been an <a href="/wiki/Archdeacon_of_Ludlow" title="Archdeacon of Ludlow">Archdeacon of Ludlow</a>, historically known as the Archdeacon of Shropshire, overseeing the other parishes in the southern part of the county (the part of the Hereford diocese that is within Shropshire). </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Roman_Catholic" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman Catholic">Roman Catholic</a> church of St Peter is on Henley Road.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Construction to a design by the Welsh-based Italian architect <a href="/wiki/Giuseppe_Rinvolucri" title="Giuseppe Rinvolucri">Giuseppe Rinvolucri</a> began in 1935, using stone from nearby <a href="/wiki/Farlow,_Shropshire" title="Farlow, Shropshire">Farlow</a> and building in a neo-Byzantine and plain Romanesque style. The construction also involved novel reinforced concrete technology. The Byzantine design continues inside, with a blue dome with twelve gold-leaf stars representing St Peter and the other Apostles.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An <a href="/wiki/Art_Deco" title="Art Deco">Art Deco</a> <a href="/wiki/Clergy_house" title="Clergy house">presbytery</a> was built next to the church. St Peter's chapel, within the castle, is now a ruin. </p><p>Ludlow has a <a href="/wiki/Methodist_Church_of_Great_Britain" title="Methodist Church of Great Britain">Methodist</a> church on Broad Street,<sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/Quaker_Meeting_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Quaker Meeting House">Quaker Meeting House</a> on St Mary's Lane,<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> a <a href="/wiki/Baptists_Together" title="Baptists Together">Baptist</a> church at the Rockspring Community Centre,<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and an <a href="/wiki/Elim_Pentecostal_Church" title="Elim Pentecostal Church">Elim Pentecostal</a> church off the Smithfield car park.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two <a href="/wiki/Monastery" title="Monastery">monastic institutions</a> once existed in Ludlow – one Augustinian ("Austin") Friars on the corner of Lower Galdeford and Weeping Cross Lane, and the other Carmelite ("White") Friars between Linney and Corve Street. Both were <a href="/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries">dissolved in 1538</a>. The White Friars site became the town's cemetery in 1824, with a new church constructed, dedicated to St Leonard (a St Leonard's chapel existed on the corner of Corve Street and Linney in medieval times). The St Leonard's graveyard and church still exist but are no longer used for burials or worship (instead the church building is now a commercial premises). The Austin Friars site became the town's livestock market (the Smithfield) and is now a public car park. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Landmarks">Landmarks</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=37" title="Edit section: Landmarks"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Ludlow_bridge.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Ludlow_bridge.jpg/220px-Ludlow_bridge.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Ludlow_bridge.jpg/330px-Ludlow_bridge.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d4/Ludlow_bridge.jpg/440px-Ludlow_bridge.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1053" data-file-height="700" /></a><figcaption>Dinham Bridge crossing the <a href="/wiki/River_Teme" title="River Teme">River Teme</a>; Ludlow Castle is situated above on the hill.</figcaption></figure> <p>The following are the principal landmark buildings and structures in the town, the majority of which are grade I or II* <a href="/wiki/Listed_building" title="Listed building">listed buildings</a>. </p> <table> <tbody><tr> <td valign="top"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Castle" title="Ludlow Castle">Ludlow Castle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/St_Laurence%27s_Church,_Ludlow" title="St Laurence's Church, Ludlow">St Laurence's Church</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Feathers_Hotel,_Ludlow" title="Feathers Hotel, Ludlow">Feathers Hotel</a></li> <li>The <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_Buttercross" title="Ludlow Buttercross">Buttercross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ludford_Bridge" class="mw-redirect" title="Ludford Bridge">Ludford Bridge</a></li> <li>Horseshoe Weir (immediately downstream of Ludford Bridge)</li> <li>Dinham Bridge</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Castle_Lodge,_Ludlow" title="Castle Lodge, Ludlow">Castle Lodge</a></li> <li>Reader's House, rear of St Laurence's</li></ul> </td> <td valign="top"> <ul><li>The Broad Gate</li> <li>1 Broad Street (Bodenhams)</li> <li>St Thomas Chapel, Dinham</li> <li>Dinham House & Dinham Lodge</li> <li>Hosyers Almshouses, College Street</li> <li>Palmers Hall, <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_College" title="Ludlow College">Ludlow College</a>, Mill Street</li> <li>The Guildhall, Mill Street</li> <li>Old Stone House & Tudor House, Corve Street</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fishmore_Hall_Hotel" title="Fishmore Hall Hotel">Fishmore Hall Hotel</a></li></ul> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Twinning">Twinning</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=38" title="Edit section: Twinning"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Ludlow has three <a href="/wiki/Sister_city" title="Sister city">twinning</a> arrangements.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/La_Fert%C3%A9-Mac%C3%A9" class="mw-redirect" title="La Ferté-Macé">La Ferté-Macé</a>, <a href="/wiki/Orne" title="Orne">Orne</a>, France (since 1986)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/San_Pietro_in_Cariano" title="San Pietro in Cariano">San Pietro in Cariano</a>, <a href="/wiki/Province_of_Verona" title="Province of Verona">Province of Verona</a>, Veneto, Italy (since 1989)<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Narberth,_Pembrokeshire" title="Narberth, Pembrokeshire">Narberth</a>, <a href="/wiki/Pembrokeshire" title="Pembrokeshire">Pembrokeshire</a>, Wales (since 2003)</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notable_people">Notable people</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=39" title="Edit section: Notable people"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Magnificent_stained_glass_window_within_St_Laurence,_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1444523.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Magnificent_stained_glass_window_within_St_Laurence%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1444523.jpg/170px-Magnificent_stained_glass_window_within_St_Laurence%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1444523.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="227" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Magnificent_stained_glass_window_within_St_Laurence%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1444523.jpg/255px-Magnificent_stained_glass_window_within_St_Laurence%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1444523.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Magnificent_stained_glass_window_within_St_Laurence%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1444523.jpg/340px-Magnificent_stained_glass_window_within_St_Laurence%2C_Ludlow_-_geograph.org.uk_-_1444523.jpg 2x" data-file-width="480" data-file-height="640" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Stained_glass_window" class="mw-redirect" title="Stained glass window">stained glass window</a> above the west door of St Laurence's displays the Lords of Ludlow Castle and most notably four key royals associated with Ludlow during/after the <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_the_Roses" title="Wars of the Roses">Wars of the Roses</a>. The praying figures at the foot are (from left to right) <a href="/wiki/Richard_of_York,_3rd_Duke_of_York" title="Richard of York, 3rd Duke of York">Richard, Duke of York</a>, his son <a href="/wiki/Edward_IV_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward IV of England">Edward IV</a> and his son <a href="/wiki/Edward_V_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Edward V of England">Edward V</a> and grandson <a href="/wiki/Arthur,_Prince_of_Wales" title="Arthur, Prince of Wales">Arthur, Prince of Wales</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p><a href="/wiki/Robert_Mascall" title="Robert Mascall">Robert Mascall</a> (died 1416), a medieval Carmelite friar who served as the Bishop of Hereford from 1404 to 1416 was born at Ludlow. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Holland_(translator)" title="Thomas Holland (translator)">Thomas Holland</a> (1549 in Ludlow – 1612) was an English Calvinist scholar and theologian and one of the translators of the King James Version of the Bible. Sir <a href="/wiki/John_Bridgeman_(judge)" title="John Bridgeman (judge)">John Bridgeman</a> (1568/69 – 1638), a Chief Justice of The Marches in the 17th century is buried in St Laurence's church, within a tomb monument attributed to <a href="/wiki/Francesco_Fanelli" title="Francesco Fanelli">Francesco Fanelli</a>. </p><p>Sir <a href="/wiki/Timothy_Littleton" title="Timothy Littleton">Timothy Littleton</a> (c1608 – 1679) was an English judge and politician who sat in the House of Commons for <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ludlow (UK Parliament constituency)">Ludlow</a> between 1660 and 1670. The poet <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Butler_(poet)" title="Samuel Butler (poet)">Samuel Butler</a> (1613–1680), lived at Ludlow while working as steward to the Lord President of the Marches in 1661–62, during which time he completed the first part of his well-known satire <i><a href="/wiki/Hudibras" title="Hudibras">Hudibras</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The painter <a href="/wiki/Samuel_Scott_(painter)" title="Samuel Scott (painter)">Samuel Scott</a> (1702–1772) moved to Ludlow in 1765,<sup id="cite_ref-Twickenham_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Twickenham-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> while portrait painter <a href="/wiki/William_Owen_(painter)" title="William Owen (painter)">William Owen</a> (1769–1825) was born in Ludlow. </p><p>Admiral <a href="/wiki/James_Vashon" title="James Vashon">James Vashon</a> (1742–1827) lived in Ludlow, on Broad Street, following his distinguished service in the Royal Navy. He died in the town and is buried at St Laurence's. A civic society <a href="/wiki/Blue_plaque" title="Blue plaque">blue plaque</a> commemorates him at 54 Broad Street;<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> there is a Vashon Close in Ludlow's eastern suburbs. <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Johnes" title="Thomas Johnes">Thomas Johnes</a> (1748 in Ludlow – 1816) was an MP, landscape architect, farmer, printer, writer and social benefactor. <a href="/wiki/Molly_Morgan" title="Molly Morgan">Molly Morgan</a> (1762 in Ludlow as Mary Jones -1835) lived in the area until transported in 1788 as a convict to Australia, where she eventually became a landowner and benefactor in <a href="/wiki/New_South_Wales" title="New South Wales">New South Wales</a>. </p><p>Notable people associated with the town include <a href="/wiki/Charles_Badham" title="Charles Badham">Charles Badham</a> (1813 in Ludlow–1884), a <a href="/wiki/Victorian_era" title="Victorian era">Victorian</a> scholar and professor at <a href="/wiki/Sydney_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Sydney University">Sydney University</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wright_(antiquarian)" title="Thomas Wright (antiquarian)">Thomas Wright</a> (1810–1877), an English antiquarian and writer. Sir <a href="/wiki/Charles_Hastings_(English_physician)" title="Charles Hastings (English physician)">Charles Hastings</a> (1794 in Ludlow–1866), was a pioneering Victorian doctor and founder of the <a href="/wiki/British_Medical_Association" title="British Medical Association">British Medical Association</a>. <a href="/wiki/Stanley_J._Weyman" title="Stanley J. Weyman">Stanley J. Weyman</a> (1855 in Ludlow – 1928) was an English writer of historical romance. Ludlow was birthplace of historian <a href="/wiki/Charles_Lethbridge_Kingsford" title="Charles Lethbridge Kingsford">Charles Lethbridge Kingsford</a> (1862–1926), when his father was headmaster at Ludlow Grammar School. </p><p>Born near the town was <a href="/wiki/John_Marston_(businessman)" title="John Marston (businessman)">John Marston</a> (1836–1918), the founder of the <a href="/wiki/Sunbeam_Motor_Car_Company" title="Sunbeam Motor Car Company">Sunbeam</a> racing car and <a href="/wiki/Sunbeam_Cycles" title="Sunbeam Cycles">motorcycle</a> company. Also born in proximity to Ludlow was <a href="/wiki/Henry_Hill_Hickman" title="Henry Hill Hickman">Henry Hill Hickman</a> (1800–1830), a very early pioneer of anaesthetics, at Lady Halton, near <a href="/wiki/Bromfield,_Shropshire" title="Bromfield, Shropshire">Bromfield</a>. <a href="/wiki/Pictorialism" title="Pictorialism">Pictorialist</a> photographer <a href="/wiki/Henry_Peach_Robinson" title="Henry Peach Robinson">Henry Peach Robinson</a> (1830–1901) was born in the town. </p><p>Captain <a href="/wiki/Adrian_Jones_(sculptor)" title="Adrian Jones (sculptor)">Adrian Jones</a> (1845 in Ludlow – 1938), the well-known sculptor has many works throughout the world, particularly the Peace Quadriga on the <a href="/wiki/Wellington_Arch" title="Wellington Arch">Wellington Arch</a> in London, and his ashes are buried at St Laurence's church. <a href="/wiki/William_Steward_(New_Zealand_politician)" title="William Steward (New Zealand politician)">Sir William Jukes-Steward</a> (1841–1912), later <a href="/wiki/Speaker_of_the_New_Zealand_House_of_Representatives" title="Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives">Speaker of the New Zealand House of Representatives</a>, had a boyhood home in Ludlow, where he attended the Grammar School, at Numbers 4–5 King Street (marked by plaque). </p><p>Captain <a href="/wiki/Geoffrey_Bennett_(historian)" title="Geoffrey Bennett (historian)">Geoffrey Bennett</a> (1909–1983), naval officer and a well-known author, writing novels such as 'Sea Lion' and naval histories under his own name, retired to a cottage in central Ludlow in 1976, where he died. Lieutenant-Colonel <a href="/wiki/Uvedale_Corbett_(politician)" title="Uvedale Corbett (politician)">Uvedale Corbett</a> (1909–2005) was a British soldier, politician and businessman and Conservative MP for <a href="/wiki/Ludlow_(UK_Parliament_constituency)" title="Ludlow (UK Parliament constituency)">Ludlow</a> from 1945 to 1951. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Martin_Rees" title="Martin Rees">Martin Rees</a>, Baron Rees of Ludlow (born 1942), the current <a href="/wiki/Astronomer_Royal" title="Astronomer Royal">Astronomer Royal</a>, is associated with the town in whose area he grew up, and <a href="/wiki/Anthony_Howard_(journalist)" title="Anthony Howard (journalist)">Anthony Howard</a> (1934–2010), a senior British political journalist, obituary writer, and social commentator had a home there. Local MP <a href="/wiki/Philip_Dunne_(Ludlow_MP)" title="Philip Dunne (Ludlow MP)">Philip Dunne</a> was born in Ludlow in 1958. </p><p>The author <a href="/wiki/P._D._James" title="P. D. James">P. D. James</a>, Baroness James of Holland Park (1920–2014) spent part of her youth in Ludlow and attended the British School there. Fr. <a href="/wiki/John_Fitzgerald_(poet)" title="John Fitzgerald (poet)">John Fitzgerald</a> (1927–2007) was a Carmelite friar, priest, poet and philosopher from Ludlow. <a href="/wiki/Kate_Charles" title="Kate Charles">Kate Charles</a> (born 1950) an American crime writer, lives in Ludlow. <a href="/wiki/Lucy_Jones_(artist)" title="Lucy Jones (artist)">Lucy Jones</a> (born 1955) a British painter and printmaker, also lives in Ludlow. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Cyril_Lello" title="Cyril Lello">Cyril Lello</a> (1921–1997) from Ludlow was a professional footballer, notably for <a href="/wiki/Shrewsbury_Town_F.C." title="Shrewsbury Town F.C.">Shrewsbury Town</a> and <a href="/wiki/Everton_F.C." title="Everton F.C.">Everton</a>. <a href="/wiki/Harry_Burgoyne" title="Harry Burgoyne">Harry Burgoyne</a> (born 1996), also from Ludlow, is a footballer who played for Shrewsbury Town until 2024.. </p><p><a href="/wiki/Dick_Heckstall-Smith" title="Dick Heckstall-Smith">Dick Heckstall-Smith</a> (1934–2004) from Ludlow was an English jazz and blues saxophonist. <a href="/wiki/Sheena_Porter" title="Sheena Porter">Sheena Porter</a> (born 1935) a British author of children's novels, lives in Ludlow. The actor <a href="/wiki/John_Challis" title="John Challis">John Challis</a> (1942–2021) who played <a href="/wiki/Boycie" title="Boycie">Boycie</a> in <i>Only Fools & Horses</i> lived near Ludlow, as did <a href="/wiki/Pete_Postlethwaite" title="Pete Postlethwaite">Pete Postlethwaite</a> (1946–2011). The actress <a href="/wiki/Holly_Davidson" title="Holly Davidson">Holly Davidson</a> (born 1980) (from <i><a href="/wiki/Casualty_(TV_series)" title="Casualty (TV series)">Casualty</a></i> and <i><a href="/wiki/The_Bill" title="The Bill">The Bill</a></i>) grew up locally. <a href="/wiki/Hollie_Robertson" title="Hollie Robertson">Hollie Robertson</a> (born 1985), winner of the <a href="/wiki/BBC" title="BBC">BBC</a>'s <i><a href="/wiki/Strictly_Dance_Fever" title="Strictly Dance Fever">Strictly Dance Fever</a></i> in 2006 is from Ludlow. Impressionist <a href="/wiki/Alistair_McGowan" title="Alistair McGowan">Alistair McGowan</a> (born 1964), now lives in Ludlow, where he is patron of the Ludlow Fringe Festival in which he has appeared performing live.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=40" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Ludlow_(northern_area)" title="Listed buildings in Ludlow (northern area)">Listed buildings in Ludlow (northern area)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Listed_buildings_in_Ludlow_(southern_area)" title="Listed buildings in Ludlow (southern area)">Listed buildings in Ludlow (southern area)</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Citations">Citations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=41" title="Edit section: Citations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.neighbourhood.statistics.gov.uk/dissemination/LeadKeyFigures.do?a=7&b=11126159&c=Ludlow&d=16&e=62&g=6461077&i=1001x1003x1032x1004&m=0&r=1&s=1448643711853&enc=1">"Town population 2011"</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. 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Ludlow Town Council. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ludlow.gov.uk/Uploads/Site817/Files/bx/thebuttercrossupdate.pdf">the original</a> <span class="cs1-format">(PDF)</span> on 20 December 2014.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=The+Buttercross+update&rft.pub=Ludlow+Town+Council&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ludlow.gov.uk%2FUploads%2FSite817%2FFiles%2Fbx%2Fthebuttercrossupdate.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-104"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-104">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.lgbce.org.uk/all-reviews/west-midlands/shropshire/shropshire">LGBCE</a> Shropshire review (2008)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-105"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-105">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/unit/10362866">Vision of Britain</a> Ludlow Castle</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-106"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-106">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.friendsofwhitcliffecommon.org.uk">Friends of Whitcliffe Common</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-107"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-107">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/election/2024/uk/constituencies/E14001493">"South Shropshire"</a>. BBC<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">29 June</span> 2024</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=South+Shropshire&rft.pub=BBC&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Felection%2F2024%2Fuk%2Fconstituencies%2FE14001493&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-108"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-108">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.mcconnel.com/Aboutus/factory.aspx?nav=Factory">McConnel Limited</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140512222114/http://www.mcconnel.com/Aboutus/factory.aspx?nav=Factory">Archived</a> 12 May 2014 at the <a href="/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> - Factory</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-109"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-109">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ludlowmarket.co.uk">Ludlow Market</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-110"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-110">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ludlow-college.ac.uk">Ludlow College</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-111"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-111">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://stlaurences.org.uk/history-and-virtual-tour/a-virtual-tour-st-laurences">St Laurence's</a> virtual tour</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-112"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-112">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cornmill.freeshell.org/stpetersludlow/">St Peter's Ludlow</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-113"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-113">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://taking-stock.org.uk/building/ludlow-st-peter/">"Ludlow – St Peter"</a>. <i>Taking Stock</i>. Catholic Bishops' Conference of England and Wales<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">16 October</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Taking+Stock&rft.atitle=Ludlow+%E2%80%93+St+Peter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftaking-stock.org.uk%2Fbuilding%2Fludlow-st-peter%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-114"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-114">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://cornmill.freeshell.org/stpetersludlow/tour.pdf">Tour of St Peter's church, Ludlow</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-115"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-115">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ludlowmethodistchurch.org">Ludlow Methodist Church</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-116"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-116">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ludlowquakers.co.uk">Ludlow Quakers</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-117"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-117">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://ludlow.churchinsight.com">Ludlow Baptist Church</a>,</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-118"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-118">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ludlowelim.co.uk">Elim Pentecostal Church</a></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-119"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-119">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.ludlow.gov.uk/visit-ludlow/twinning">Ludlow Town Council</a> Twinning</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-120"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-120">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ludlowitaliantwinning.org.uk/about.html">"About"</a>. Ludlow Italian Twinning Association<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 April</span> 2021</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=About&rft.pub=Ludlow+Italian+Twinning+Association&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ludlowitaliantwinning.org.uk%2Fabout.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-121"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-121">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDickins1987" class="citation cs2">Dickins, Gordon (1987), <i>An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire</i>, Shropshire Libraries, pp. 12, 101, <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-903802-37-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-903802-37-6"><bdi>0-903802-37-6</bdi></a></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=An+Illustrated+Literary+Guide+to+Shropshire&rft.pages=12%2C+101&rft.pub=Shropshire+Libraries&rft.date=1987&rft.isbn=0-903802-37-6&rft.aulast=Dickins&rft.aufirst=Gordon&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Twickenham-122"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Twickenham_122-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFThe_Twickenham_Museum" class="citation web cs1">The Twickenham Museum. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.twickenham-museum.org.uk/detail.php?aid=110&cid=11&ctid=1">"Samuel Scott"</a>. <i>The Twickenham Museum</i><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">1 July</span> 2016</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=The+Twickenham+Museum&rft.atitle=Samuel+Scott&rft.au=The+Twickenham+Museum&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.twickenham-museum.org.uk%2Fdetail.php%3Faid%3D110%26cid%3D11%26ctid%3D1&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-123"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-123">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ludlowcivicsociety.org/ludlowcivicsoci9.html">Ludlow Civic Society</a> blue plaques</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-124"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-124">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1">"Star's show in new home town". <i>Shropshire Star</i>. 19 July 2021. p. 3.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Shropshire+Star&rft.atitle=Star%27s+show+in+new+home+town&rft.pages=3&rft.date=2021-07-19&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span>Report by Rory Smith.</span> </li> </ol></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=42" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239549316">.mw-parser-output .refbegin{margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul{margin-left:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{margin-left:0;padding-left:3.2em;text-indent:-3.2em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul,.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents ul li{list-style:none}@media(max-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .refbegin-hanging-indents>ul>li{padding-left:1.6em;text-indent:-1.6em}}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns ul{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .refbegin-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .refbegin{font-size:90%}}</style><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFConzen2011" class="citation book cs1">Conzen, M. R. G. (2011) [1988]. "Morphogenesis, morphological regions and secular human agency in the historic townscape, as exemplified by Ludlow". <i>Urban Historical Geography: Recent Progress in Britain and Germany</i>. Cambridge Studies in Historical Geography. Vol. 10 (paperback ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 253–272. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-521-18974-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-521-18974-3"><bdi>978-0-521-18974-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Morphogenesis%2C+morphological+regions+and+secular+human+agency+in+the+historic+townscape%2C+as+exemplified+by+Ludlow&rft.btitle=Urban+Historical+Geography%3A+Recent+Progress+in+Britain+and+Germany&rft.series=Cambridge+Studies+in+Historical+Geography&rft.pages=253-272&rft.edition=paperback&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-521-18974-3&rft.aulast=Conzen&rft.aufirst=M.+R.+G.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFCoplestone-Crow2000" class="citation book cs1">Coplestone-Crow, Bruce (2000). "From Foundation to the Anarchy". In Ron Shoesmith; Andy Johnson (eds.). <i>Ludlow Castle: Its History & Buildings</i>. Logaston Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-873827-51-2" title="Special:BookSources/1-873827-51-2"><bdi>1-873827-51-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=From+Foundation+to+the+Anarchy&rft.btitle=Ludlow+Castle%3A+Its+History+%26+Buildings&rft.pub=Logaston+Press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=1-873827-51-2&rft.aulast=Coplestone-Crow&rft.aufirst=Bruce&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFFenwick2001" class="citation book cs1">Fenwick, Carolyn, ed. (2001). <i>The poll taxes of 1377, 1379 and 1381: Part 2, Lincolnshire–Westmorland</i>. Oxford University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-726228-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-726228-3"><bdi>978-0-19-726228-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+poll+taxes+of+1377%2C+1379+and+1381%3A+Part+2%2C+Lincolnshire%E2%80%93Westmorland&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=978-0-19-726228-3&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPallister2000" class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-long-vol">Pallister, David Michael, ed. (2000). <i>The Cambridge Urban History of Britain</i>. Vol. I: 600–1540. Cambridge University Press.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Cambridge+Urban+History+of+Britain&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2000&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRoom2003" class="citation book cs1">Room, Adrian (2003). <i>Placenames of the World: Origins and Meanings</i>. McFarland. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-7864-1814-1" title="Special:BookSources/0-7864-1814-1"><bdi>0-7864-1814-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Placenames+of+the+World%3A+Origins+and+Meanings&rft.pub=McFarland&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=0-7864-1814-1&rft.aulast=Room&rft.aufirst=Adrian&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFShoesmith2000" class="citation book cs1">Shoesmith, Ron (2000). "The Town of Ludlow". In Ron Shoesmith; Andy Johnson (eds.). <i>Ludlow Castle: Its History & Buildings</i>. Logaston Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-873827-51-2" title="Special:BookSources/1-873827-51-2"><bdi>1-873827-51-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=The+Town+of+Ludlow&rft.btitle=Ludlow+Castle%3A+Its+History+%26+Buildings&rft.pub=Logaston+Press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=1-873827-51-2&rft.aulast=Shoesmith&rft.aufirst=Ron&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ALudlow" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ludlow&action=edit&section=43" title="Edit section: External links"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" 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