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Places to stay in Clun
Surrounded by an amphitheatre of hills, the visitor arrives so gently, by gravity alone, at the bridge and the river. There is no better place to interpret the town.
For nearly six hundred years the town has contented itself with this narrow crossing designed for the packhorse. This, despite the fact that Thomas Telford who built a thousand bridges was once the county surveyor. It cannot be an accident that he should overlook Clun. Due to his benign neglect, it has done more than survive. It is largely original, very rare in a bridge from 1450. Its narrow charm has kept the busy world at bay. One of Housman’s ‘quietest places under the sun’ begins here.
