Ludlow - Shropshire
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Ludlow Castle is a ruined medieval fortification in the town of the same name in the English county of Shropshire, standing on a promontory overlooking the River Teme.
Northbound Green Mountain train XR-1 slows to do some work at Ludlow, VT on March 3, 1981 with RS-1 No. 405.
A very pretty Shropshire market town and a place where Henry VIII was raised in his earlier years...it's certainly well worth a visit.
An abandoned house in Ludlow, California on old Route 66. At least I think it was a house. According to one of my Flickr friends, this was once the nicest home in all of Ludlow.
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Stokesay Castle is one of the finest surviving fortified manor houses in England, and situated at Stokesay in Shropshire. It was largely built in its present form in the late 13th century by Laurence de Ludlow, on the earlier castle (some of which still survives) founded by its original owners the de Lacy family, from whom it passed to their de Verdun heirs, who retained feudal overlordship of Stokesay until at least 1317. Laurence 'of' Ludlow was one of the leading wool merchants in England, who intended it to form a secure private house and generate income as a commercial estate. Laurence's descendants continued to own the castle until the 16th century, when it passed through various private owners.
Architecturally, Stokesay Castle is "one of the best-preserved medieval fortified manor houses in England", according to historian Henry Summerson. The castle comprises a walled, moated enclosure, with an entrance way through a 17th-century timber and plaster gatehouse. Inside, the courtyard faces a stone hall and solar block, protected by two stone towers. The hall features a 13th-century wooden-beamed ceiling, and 17th-century carved figures ornament the gatehouse and the solar. The castle was never intended to be a serious military fortification, but its style was intended to echo the much larger castles being built by Edward I in North Wales. Originally designed as a prestigious, secure, comfortable home, the castle has changed very little since the 13th century, and is a rare, surviving example of a near complete set of medieval buildings. English Heritage has minimised the amount of interpretative material displayed at the property and kept the castle largely unfurnished.
Ludlow is a lovely market town in beautiful Shropshire - this is one of the many Hotels there,- I hope you like the architecture like me - I have no idea how old it is though!
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…… Had the annual trip to Ludlow today to get the Christmas Cake & Christmas puddings - Jill’s Mom always made them and these from the Farm Shop (Ludlow Foods) are the nearest we have ever found! Jill had a whizz around town and the Market whilst I went hunting for my #327 shot of the day. After all the rain of late there was plenty of water in the River Teme and coming over the weir….. Alan:-)
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Ludlow and it's majestic Castle towering over Dinham bridge and the River Teme below, Shropshire, England, UK
Ludlow Castle stands like a colossus atop a high bluff over the River Teme. The first fortifications here were probably by Roger de Lacy, Earl of Shrewsbury, shortly after 1086. By the time de Lacy was banished by William II in 1095 a curtain wall with defensive towers had been built around a bailey.
Ludlow was built in stone from the beginning, rather than hastily thrown together in earth and timber and later converted to stone as with most other Norman fortresses.
The curtain is defended by a ditch cut into the solid rock of the cliffs, crossed by a single drawbridge. Outside this ditch, or moat, is a larger outer bailey, itself surrounded by an extension of the curtain wall. There is only one large entry through the outer curtain, from Castle Street, while the other sides of the site are protected by the high, steep cliffs.
The outer bailey contains Mortimer's Tower, originally the west gate to the castle, and St Peter's Chapel, added in the 14th century. Within the 11th-century inner curtain wall is a sturdy stone keep, originally used as a gatehouse. Beside the gatehouse is the Judge's Lodging, added in the Elizabethan period.
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Dinham Bridge, crossing the River Teme, with Ludlow Castle above. Originally built in 1823 by Thomas Telford. Only one arch remains of the original bridge.
Green Mountain train 264 returns west toward Rutland with a pair of reds leading seen here passing Ludlow Depot with some of the last fall color hanging on.
We visited Ludlow Yesterday 27-07-2016 on our way back from Croft Castle .....doing it the long way round so that we could go over Clee Hills .While in Ludlow i got this shot of the castle and the River Teme flowing under Dinham Bridge........if you have been there you just got love Ludlow
…A shot taken earlier in the year and I guess as it would be looking right now as Autumn declines & Winter sets in. Take care on the roads as high winds & rain lash the UK and anywhere else that is also in the grip of winter. Alan:-)……
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a large part of the little bit left of Ludlow, Colorado. It never had a chance: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludlow_Massacre
Another shot from our recent trip to the beautiful Shropshire market town of Ludlow .Some lovely little side streets and lovely old black and white buildings to photograph
Collapsing service garage at Ludlow CA
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An eastbound Santa Fe intermodal train approaches Ludlow, California, on March 8, 1995. AT&SF No. 5013, a 1966-built EMD SD40, leads the train through a Mojave Desert that has hints of some green flora due to springtime rains.
VTR 307 heads east over Ludlow Trestle with the Tuesday morning edition of the Green Mountain foliage excursion bound for Chester, VT. Foliage hasn't quite hit peak, but the colors around the Okemo Ski Resort still looked very good.
Over the border today to our beautiful neighbour County of Shropshire, a first visit to Ludlow castle, I was happy to capture this image with the tree shadow filling the foreground. Very pleased with the visit, plenty to see and of course a walk about the town testing some of the many eateries !
The construction of Ludlow Castle started around 1085, with many later additions in the following two centuries. It is one of the most interesting castles in the Marches, in a dominant and imposing position high above the river Teme. It features examples of architecture from the Norman, Medieval and Tudor periods. The building of the castle led to the development of Ludlow itself, at first grouped around the castle; the impressive ruins of the castle occupy the oldest part of Ludlow.
In the late 12th and early 13th centuries the castle was extended, and part of the grid pattern of streets immediately to the south was obscured by the enlarged outer bailey. From 1233 onwards the town walls were constructed; Ludlow Castle stood within the circuit of the walls.
Ludlow Castle has played a key role in some turbulent events in English history. One of its 14th-century owners, Roger Mortimer, helped his mistress Queen Isabella, in the overthrow of her husband King Edward II. In 1473, the Prince of Wales and his brother were held here before their mysterious death in the Tower of London. In 1502 Prince Arthur, Henry VII's son and heir to the throne, died at Ludlow.