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Shropshire town, 8 miles SE of Craven Arms.
Ludlow's architectural and scenic delights have been extolled in just about every guide book written about the county. Suffice to say here that it is an ancient and beautiful town, physically dominated by the ruined castle and magnificent parish church.
Richard Baxter (1615-1691) was educated, or supposedly educated, by Richard Wickstead at Ludlow Castle.
The writer Kenneth Bird (1916-1993) lived in Ludlow for many years where he edited the local newspaper and wrote many of his children's books.
Samuel Butler (1612-1680), author of the great satire Hudibras(1663-1678) was Steward at the castle in the year 1661.
Susan Davis (1952-) worked in Ludlow's tourism and education centres before becoming a full-time writer.
A.E. Housman (1859-1936) referred nostalgically to Ludlow in many of his Shropshire poems. His ashes were burried near the north door of St. Laurence's Church.
John Milton (1608-1674) wrote the masque Comus (1634) in honour of the Earl of Bridgewater and it was performed for the first time in the Council Chamber of Ludlow Castle.
Armel O'Connor (d.1955) and his wife Violet lived in the parish of Mary's Meadow, Ludford, just across the River Teme, where they wrote their Christian poems and set up their own press.
The children's novelist, Sheena Porter (1935- ), lived in and wrote about Ludlow and the surrounding Shropshire countryside. She was the author of the 1964 Carnegie Medal winner, Nordy Bank (1964)
Philip Sidney (1554-1586) often visited Ludlow Castle as a child, his father being Lord President of the Council of the Marches.
Stanley Weyman (1855-1928) was Ludlow's own novelist. he was born at 54 Broad Street and lived in the town until the 1890's.
Thomas Wright (1810-1877), the antiquarian, was educated at Ludlow Grammar School.
Francis Brett Young (1884-1954), the Worcestershire novelist, knew Ludlow and the surrounding area well and used the town as a setting for part of The Iron Age (1916).
Location map of Ludlow courtesy of Streetmap.co.uk
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