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10 unusual facts about Ludlow


Downton Castle

Downton Castle is an 18th-century country house at Downton on the Rock, Herefordshire, England, about five miles west of Ludlow, Shropshire.

John G. Sargent

Sargent died in Ludlow on March 5, 1939, and was buried at the Pleasant View Cemetery in Ludlow, Vermont.

John G. Sargent was born in Ludlow, Vermont on October 13, 1860, the son of John Henmon Sargent and Ann Eliza Hanley.

Ludlow, California

After Interstate 40 was built bypassing town there was little business and most residents departed, leaving ruins of empty buildings and Tamarisk trees that still stand flanking the old highway.

Ludlow, Kentucky

Carneal later sold the land to William Bullock, a British showman, entrepreneur, and traveller, who directed John Papworth to design a utopian community for the site named Hygeia (Greek for "health").

Metacalymene

They lived in the Silurian period in the Ludlow age, from 422.9 ± 1.5 to 418.7 ± 2.8 million years ago.

Omar McFarlane

McFarlane spent the next four seasons in Ludlow with the Pioneers, playing in 72 league games, scoring 16 goals, and helping the Pioneers to the 2006 USL2 regular season title.

Planiscutellum

They lived in the Silurian period in the upper Ludlow age, from 422.9 ± 1.5 to 418.7 ± 2.8 million years ago.

Silver Valley High School

It provides educational services to the communities of Calico, Daggett, Fort Irwin, Ludlow, Newberry Springs and Yermo.

Track circuit

A full-sized version was subsequently installed on the Philadelphia and Erie Railroad at Ludlow, Pennsylvania (aka Kinzua, PA), where it proved to be practical.


4ZA

Ludlow left in 2011 to take on the role of station manager at Radio Southland and Andy Mack (who at the time read local sport during breakfast and contributed on-air) began presenting the Saturday morning show until he left in July 2011, Boggy or Tracy covered this show until the end of 2011.

Alan Murchison

In 2007, Murchison jumped on the opportunity to buy the former Hibiscus restaurant in Ludlow, Shropshire from Claude Bosi.

Aymestry Limestone

It is well developed in the neighbourhood of Ludlow (it is sometimes called the Ludlow limestone) and occupies a similar position in the Ludlow shales at Woolhope, the Abberley Hills, May Hill and the Malvern Hills.

Battle of Ludford Bridge

Richard retreated towards Ludlow, before making a stand at a fortified position near Ludford, Shropshire on 12 October.

Bedstone

Famous former pupils include the present Astronomer Royal, Sir Martin Rees, now Baron Ludlow, and explorer and TV presenter Monty Halls.

Bucknell railway station

Local bus services (the Arriva 738 & 740) call at the station, which travel between Ludlow and Knighton and call at the nearby villages of Bedstone, Brampton Bryan and Leintwardine.

Cantlin Stone

In 1858, the Ludlow M.P. Beriah Botfield erected a limestone cross next to the original stone to commemorate the pedlar.

Charles Hepworth Holland

Remaining to do postgraduate research, he began work on the Ordovician of the Bala area and then the Silurian of Ludlow.

Claude Bosi

Bosi sold the former Hibisicus site to Alan Murchison for £275,000 shortly after closing the Ludlow location.

Cleobury Mortimer

Today the nearest railway stations are on the heritage Severn Valley Railway, with the nearest mainline stations at Ludlow and Kidderminster.

Duke of Sutherland

William Gower, youngest son of Sir William the fourth Baronet, was Member of Parliament for Ludlow.

Earl of Powis

He notably represented Bletchingley and Ludlow in Parliament and served as Lord Lieutenant of Montgomeryshire and Shropshire.

He had already been created Baron Clive, of Walcot in the County of Shropshire, in 1794, in the Peerage of Great Britain, and was made Baron Powis, of Powis Castle in the County of Montgomery, Baron Herbert, of Chirbury in the County of Shropshire, and Viscount Clive, of Ludlow in the County of Shropshire, at the same time he was given the earldom.

Edward Herbert

Edward Herbert, 2nd Earl of Powis (1785–1848), British peer and Tory politician; MP for Ludlow

Fisher and Ludlow

Fisher and Ludlow was a British car body manufacturing company based in Castle Bromwich near Birmingham.

Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library

The Fitz Hugh Ludlow Memorial Library is a library of psychoactive drug-related literature created in 1970 by Michael Horowitz, Cynthia Palmer, William Dailey, and Robert Barker, who merged their private libraries.

George Duncan Ludlow

His daughter Frances Duncan Ludlow (1766–1797) was the second wife of Richard Harison.

Harriet Ludlow Clarke

Harriet Ludlow Clarke (died 19 January 1866, Cannes) was a wood engraver and stained glass artist.

Henry Bridgeman

Henry Bridgeman, 1st Baron Bradford (1725–1800), British MP for Ludlow & (Much) Wenlock

Henry Folliott, 3rd Baron Folliott

He succeeded to the title Baron Folliott and to extensive Irish estates on the death in 1697 of his father Thomas Folliott of Ferney Hall, Onibury, Ludlow, Shropshire and Wardtown Castle, Ballymacaward, Co Donegal.

Hugh Watts

Watts taught history and cricket at Downside until in 1963 when he founded the Moor Park preparatory school near Ludlow in Shropshire.

Ida May Fuller

She spent most of her life in Ludlow, working as a legal secretary, but lived with her niece in Brattleboro, Vermont during her last eight years.

Jeanne de Fougères, Countess of La Marche and of Angoulême

Jeanne of Lusignan (1260- 13 April 1323), married firstly Bernard Ezi III, Lord of Albret, by whom she had two daughters; she married secondly Sir Piers de Geneville of Trim and Ludlow, by whom she had another three daughters, including the eldest Joan de Geneville, who in her turn married Roger de Mortimer, 1st Earl of March.

Late March 2013 North American winter storm

Snow totals as of the morning of March 19 are: 4" in Manchester, Connecticut; 4.5" in Ludlow, Massachusetts; 5.2" in South Weymouth, Massachusetts; 5.3" in Fitchburg, Massachusetts; and 8.0" in Brookline, Massachusetts.

Leintwardine

Leintwardine is home to the Conservative MP Philip Dunne, who represents the Ludlow constituency and Leintwardine itself is represented by Bill Wiggin, MP for North Herefordshire.

Martin Ludlow

"Why do I support him? L.A. needs him," said attorney Connie Rice, who was among 16 people, including actor Danny Glover and Rep. Diane Watson (D-Los Angeles), who were part of the "reception committee" at a recent fundraiser to benefit Ludlow.

Peter Ludlow

It was the unofficial newspaper for the Alphaville server of The Sims Online, where Ludlow used the avatar Urizenus Sklar.

Robert Marmion

Tamworth passed to Jane, daughter of Mazera Marmion, and wife of Baldwin de Freville, and Scrivelsby eventually passed with Margaret de Ludlow to Sir John Dymoke, in whose family it has since remained along with the title 'Champion of England'.

Samuel More

Samuel More was the husband of Katherine More, whose father, Jasper More, was master of Larden, a 1000-acre estate between Much Wenlock and Ludlow in Shropshire, England.

The Alphaville Herald

It was originally a newspaper for the Alphaville virtual city of The Sims Online, where Ludlow used the avatar Urizenus Sklar.

Sklar (Ludlow) is currently a Contributing Editor, while the avatar Pixeleen Mistral, revealed by Ludlow in 2010 to be Internet pioneer Mark P. McCahill, is the newspaper's Managing Editor.

The Virgin in the Ice

Josce de Dinan: A middle-aged lord in Ludlow whose allegiance King Stephen strives to maintain, first by giving him the castle there, along with lands once belonging to Lacy.

Thomas Newport

Thomas Newport, 1st Baron Torrington (c. 1655–1719), English MP for Ludlow, Winchelse, (Much) Wenlock and Teller of the Exchequer

Timothy Turner

His initial practice was centered around Ludlow, the legal center of Wales and the Marches, but he was of little note officially until 1626, when he became a justice of the peace for Shropshire, through the influence either of Sir Thomas Coventry, or Ellesmere's son and heir the Earl of Bridgewater.

Woofferton transmitting station

The Woofferton transmitting station is the last remaining UK shortwave broadcasting site, located at Woofferton, south of Ludlow, Shropshire, England.