Clun Town Trail

Clun Town Trail

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Clun was listed listed was Clun church. the round built river the lun is a very ancient town. 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As a pub it had a ‘Penny day, a livery gown of blue emblazoned with a Reading Room’ and Assembly Rooms for dances. red and silver badge wearing his top hat for Sundays. The sculpture created by Gemma Turn left and 50 yds on turn right through the barriers Pearson, a local artist. Built in 1614 by the Earl on the footpath leading to the Memorial Hall. Pass the of Northampton who was a trusted servant Above and below, Trinity Hospital children’s play area, turning left at the end of the car of James I and brother of the Duke of Norfolk park and walk down to the Youth Hostel, about 200yds. who owned Clun Castle, Trinity Hospital on the right. Number 2 on the plan. was intended to provide charitable accommodation for twelve men of good This is the site and original buildings of the old character. Fortunately the rules were changed water mill, which was powered by a lake, which some years ago to allow married couples to covered the whole of the current Memorial hall site, occupy some of the larger cottages. Visitors may its playing fields and car park over which you have walk to the quadrangle archway and admire the just walked. The hostel has gone through many quiet atmosphere but please have consideration for changes in its accommodation provision but the the residents. The Chapel is always open and there most recent update has enabled the original mill is a Communion Service held there on Tuesdays machinery to be exposed and this can be viewed at at 10.00am. any time the hostel is open , providing due respect is given to the privacy of the users of the hostel. We are Turn left out of the main gates and proceed to the Sculpture of Joe the Bear and one of his compatriots, Billie Cantie. grateful for this decision by the YHA as the only other T-junction at the bottom complete workings of this nature are in a museum The Visitor Information Point is located in Clun Above, the original mill machinery in the far reaches of the Garage. To your right you will see two important Below, the Old Mill now a Youth Hostel North and are therefore buildings. Although not especially grand and quite unique. certainly not old these are the first six houses built as shared equity homes, part owned part rented Retrace your steps past and an attempt at making houses in Clun the car park and take affordable to our young folk. Next door to them the left hand fork off you will see the Victorian houses known as Jubilee the road as far as the House with the Meredith’s Temperance Hotel on the entrance to Trinity gable end. This is number 4 on your map. It was Hospital, number 3 built in 1870 by Edward Vaughan who was the main on your town guide. carrier, horse and cart of course, in the Clun Valley Y 4 Z Y 5 Z and would meet travellers, mainly salesmen, at circular, an ancient Welsh and Irish traditional form Broome railway station. He saw an opportunity to for sacred sites. Christian churches on such sites provide temperance accommodation, very popular have often been continuously used for religious at the time, dare I say with salesmen’s wives, and the purposes since Celtic times and the ancient yew to house is named after his daughter who carried on the NE of the church supports this as its girth of 33ft the business after he died. It is rumoured that he suggests an age exceeding 2000 years - Clun’s oldest owned the first horseless carriage in the Clun valley living inhabitant. but I suspect that this was a well-kept secret at the A tragic memorial on a tomb SE of the yew records Waterloo time. seven brothers and sisters, aged 4 to 24, carried off in Immediately in front of you as you leave Hospital 1811 within the short space of 3 weeks by a ‘putrid fever’. Lane and directly opposite the Methodist Chapel is More unusual inscriptions can be seen on the stones Turnpike Cottage, originally the tollhouse for the old commemorating John Osborne the playwright and turnpike road to Craven Arms, the stone tiles on the his wife Helen. They can be found just to the W of roof are of interest, smaller at the top and larger at the church. The Osborne’s home at the Hurst, just the bottom. outside Clun, is now a centre for writers run by a charitable trust. The grave of John Osborne Take the road to the left of Turnpike Cottage down Temperance Hall sign above the post office to Waterloo, called Waterlow on some old maps Leave the lychgate and war memorial behind you and walk down Church St towards the river. Cross the river by the footbridge and, please, if you have the company of dogs keep them on a lead, Church St is lined with some of the oldest houses as there are often very tame ducks at this point. in Clun and used to house four or even five pubs as The road then goes up a short hill at the top of well as a number of craft workshops, which were which can be seen traces of an arched window in necessary in a town of this importance. a cottage, which used to be a ‘Dame School’ a small No 8 Church St was a tailors shop as far back as private school now a private house. Take the right 1851 at least. Number 10 Church St. (number 6 on hand fork in the road down to the lychgate of your map) was for many years a boot maker and Clun church, number 5 on your guide. Before cobblers workshop. The 1800’s was a time when arriving at the church you will pass the former almost every street in Clun boasted

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