Shakespeare’s Richard III references Ludlow Castle as the location where the young king, Edward V, would be brought from after his father’s death:
BUCKINGHAM
Now cheer each other in each other’s love
Though we have spent our harvest of this king,
We are to reap the harvest of his son.
The broken rancour of your high-swoln hearts,
But lately splinter’d, knit, and join’d together,
Must gently be preserved, cherish’d, and kept:
Me seemeth good, that, with some little train,
Forthwith from Ludlow the young prince be fetch’d
Hither to London, to be crown’d our king.– Richard III, William Shakespeare Act 2, Scene 2.
The YouTuber Evelyn Edwards has just done a really good video on this, and the wider status of Shropshire in that period as the setting of the
History buffs and foodies alike will love Ludlow: explore its medieval castle, wander charming streets lined with independent shops, and savor delicious local produce at the Ludlow Market.
