Clun - in Culture

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  • In A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Housman wrote the verse:
“

Clunton and Clunbury,
Clungunford and Clun,
Are the quietest places
Under the sun.

 ”
  • In Douglas Adams' book The Meaning of Liff, Clun is listed as "a leg that has gone to sleep that you have to drag around behind you".
  • E. M. Forster visited Clun, which subsequently featured as Oniton in his novel Howards End (1910).
  • Sir Walter Scott is believed to have stayed in The Buffalo Inn while writing The Betrothed and The Talisman, published jointly as Tales of The Crusaders in 1825. Clun Castle is supposed to have inspired Scott's Garde Doleureuse in that work.

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