The Shropshire Hills Blue Remembered Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty Book New

The Shropshire Hills are alive with great stories, although too few of them are known to the casual visitor, or even the interested resident. But each year, a few dozen will hear these weird and wonderful tales as they accompany landscape detective Keith Pybus on his walks. Now, for the first time, these stories from the Long Mynd, Wenlock Edge, the Clee Hills, and the Stiperstones have been committed to print. Follow in the footsteps of A.E. Housman, Mary Webb, Bruce Chatwin, and John Osborne. Meet three local Grand Designers, and explore the mansions they built with the fortunes they made. Find out what brought Napoleon\u2019s brother, Lucien Bonaparte, to the Ludlow social scene. Read the hair-raising tale of Molly Morgan, twice sentenced to transportation; the woes of the arsenous maid of Ferney Hall; the stories of the children banished to the New World on the Mayflower; and many, many more. Of course, the explorations are not just into the past. Each year thousands of food fans.