Clun is a small town of grim grey stone among huge hills scattered with bilberries, Neolithic earthworks and iron age hill forts. The past rolls into the present in these hills for the landscape has hardly changed and there is precious little plough— fields are still sprinkled with trees  and there are oak and beech woods hanging on to steep hillsides. Clun itself sits on the convergence of eight roads and was for centuries a fierce bastion protecting the Salopians against the turbulent Welsh. At the time of the Norman Conquest Clun formed part of the extensive lands of . . . → Read More: Clun, Shropshire