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The Wonderful Tudor World of the Lodges and the Hills
In Tudor Soulton Hall, life pulsed with intrigue, a story that would echo through literary history.
Here, Romance blossomed with Rosalynde, the fictional heroine penned by Thomas Lodge, whose boyhood is intimately tied to Soulton’s very woodlands. It was this setting that famously inspired the world of Shakespeare’s ‘As You Like It’, bringing Rosalind and Orlando’s love to life on stage.
Meanwhile, Sir Rowland Hill, a leading statesman fallen from favour, retreated to this very Shropshire countryside.
Within Soulton’s walls, he dedicated himself to unlocking the spirit of the Renaissance, not just for himself, but laying the profound groundwork for a future of intellectual and artistic flourishing that would influence generations, including the greatest playwright himself.
