This traditional, terraced cottage in Clun sleeps five people in three bedrooms.
Three bedrooms: 2 x double, 1 x single. Bathroom with bath, shower over, basin and WC. Ground floor shower room with shower, basin and WC. Kitchen with dining area. Sitting room with woodburning stove.
A.E. Houseman’s poem, A Shropshire Lad, defined Clun as ‘the quietest place under the sun’, and with its dramatic ruin of a Norman castle, Saxon church, the bustling river which flows under the 14th Century pack horse bridge, and a country inn, Clun is a rural gem situated in the South Shropshire Hills.
The town of Clun gets its name from the river it is situated on, which is called Colunwy in Welsh. This root word is also shared by two other rivers, Colne in Lancashire and Essex, which each have a town named after them. Clun was established in the late 7th century AD around an Anglo-Saxon church, but there was already a scattered population in the area going back to the Neolithic period around 5000 years ago. Clun was situated on a historic road where animals were driven from Wales to be sold in markets in the Midlands and London. At the time of the Norman Conquest, Clun was part of the lands owned by Eadric the Wild, who rebelled against King William I and had his lands taken away and given to Roger de Montgomery, who became Earl of Shrewsbury. Roger then granted 27 manors, including Clun, to Picot de Say, creating a single Marcher Lordship that became known as the… [rest of the sentence omitted].
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