Cultural Clun Valley

The Shropshire valley that inspired some of Britain’s greatest writers

The village of Clun, in Shropshire’s Clun Valley (c) Simon Whaley

Shropshire’s Clun Valley is surprisingly quiet.

But I’m not the first to notice. In 1896, the poet A E Housman published a collection of poems titled A Shropshire Lad and in it, he wrote:

“Clunton and Clunbury,