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Herefordshire town, 7 miles SW of Great Malvern.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861) lived at Hope End, near Ledbury from 1809 until 1832. It was an attractive, albeit secluded, place recalled later in her poem The lost bower (1844). There is a monument to Edward Moulton Barrett, her father, in the very fine St. Michael's Church.
John Masefield (1878-1967) was born at The Knapp, the son of a local solicitor. Although he did not spend long in the area he fondly remembered the town in some of his later poetry, especially the church which he described as having "a golden vane surveying half the shire".
Location map of Ledbury courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk
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8 October 2002
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