self catering accommodation ludlow, Corve Street Track

self catering accommodation ludlow Corve Street Track self catering accommodation ludlow self catering accommodation Ludlow, Ludlow Town, Corve Street Track, the River Teme and the River Corve, St. Laurence's Church, the early settlement in Ludlow. Tudor, Stuart, church, Roman soldiers, ancient, Ludlow, medieval church, travellers, tumulus, medieval, Carmelite Friary. holiday cottages, self catering accommodation Ludlow, You may find the text below interesting to read if you are planning to stay in our holiday cottages. All manner of travellers used the corve street track including Roman soldiers and Irish saints it seems. An ancient and well used route stretched between the bridges or fords of the River Teme and the River Corve going over the tumulus between the two. The early settlement in Ludlow was built around this tumulus, on which St. Laurence's Church now stands, with the old track way now serving as an access street. The part of the track used by the early travellers to and from the north took its name from the river that was forded, so becoming Corve Street and was the most used of all approaches. Over time Corve Street has had a variety of trades in abundance including glover's workshops, tanners, brewers and maltsters, a sort of medieval trading estate. Excavations have proved that buildings were erected in Corve Street when the town plan was first devised sometime before 1186. Most of these earlier ones only leave clues of their existence having long disappeared along with a holy well, a town gate and a Carmelite Friary (itself having been built on the ruins of an earlier building). What remains of course are a wealth of elegant mansions one of which being the Feathers hotel, which started life as a lawyer's house and became an inn after the English Civil War in 1670. The Feathers hotel is one of the most famous of all timber buildings and an outstanding memorial to the Ludlow carpenters of Tudor and Stuart times. Near the bottom of Corve Street on the left is St. Leonard's church a 19th century building that replaced a medieval church. It is at this church yard gate that one of Ludlow's ghosts can be seen turning in to sometimes at night. What also remains is the number of encroachments, flights of steps, handrails, foot scrapers and horizontal coal gratings, which survived because Ludlow town never had an effective Improvement Act in the 18th and 19th centuries which forced these encroachments to be tidied away. It seems in Ludlow we have regularly knocked the big buildings down and rebuilt on grand scales but we like to keep the small stuff.

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